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5Jan/050

Who is Franklin Locator

Some time ago I had my first case of porn comment spam, but I quickly closed that hole with a WordPress CAPTCHA from Gudlyf’s World.

Yesterday while going through my serverlogs I noticed an unfamiliar User Agent called "Franklin Locator 1.8"

"Franklin Locator" apparently is a spambot :-(

In just 42 seconds this little critter managed to fetch 26 pages looking to snatch up in-the-open email addresses

And it didn't even touch robots.txt, so disallowing it there would be futile.

I think there is help to be found in Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap - by Neil Gunton, but I haven't had the time to look any further into it.

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