Comments on: Vadixbot – Look Out!

By: julio

julio — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:29:39 +0000

Well luckily you could detect it in time so you do not re-invade the host

By: octsw

octsw — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:13:53 +0000

btw the vadix bot (if its a bot) crawled all pages of my website in 6 turns in a period of 2 days. What does it want ?

By: octsw

octsw — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:05:07 +0000

is it vadix or vladix ?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:49:42 +0000

Anything and everything from Herndon, VA is the CIA, even the manager at Arbys. lol!

By: TheOne

TheOne — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:30:37 +0000

Today this bot crawled my server.
Really weird behaviour, it asked for the robots.txt This file I deleted months ago and was for 1 day on my site. And there was only one sentence in it, to look in one open dir (this was a small google project to test google) This robots.txt was only read by google in history (by a short add website I gave at there website). The Vadixbot knew the opendir. So it doesn’t only work with the robots.txt. It uses Googles results too.

On this server and IP, I’ll host a couple of different domains, all these domains were seperatly scanned at the same time (seconds/minute) by the Vladixbot, apperently it wanted everything hosted on my IP adress.

Luckily my sites doesn’t contains, lots of pictures movies or mp3’s otherwise it would be down.
It downloaded everything, from movies till text files till even the thumbs.db what was in a map.

Who/what is the owner/purphose???? If someone can post that here, please….

Greetings from Holland!!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:23:23 +0000

Weird. VadixBot only loaded two files off my server on 15 Dec 2007, but not since then, yet others are getting hammered. Does it look for things and then decide who to target, and if so, what?

67.78.34.174 http://www.varusonline.com – [15/Dec/2007:15:59:32 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 491 “-” “VadixBot”
67.78.34.166 http://www.varusonline.com – [15/Dec/2007:15:59:32 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 4844 “-” “VadixBot”

By: Mortal

Mortal — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:21:14 +0000

I am now disallowing VadixBot. It started crawling my site the 23rd.

In the last three days (2007-12-23 18:10:11 to 2007-12-26 01:08:07), it has crawled 395 pages, and it crawled robots.txt twice: 2007-12-23 18:10:11 (the first file it fetched) and 22:50:30 the same day.

Merry Christmas / Merry Yuletide.

By: Meissner

Meissner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:35:57 +0000

Does somebody have new information about the VadixBot? I am from Germany, he has visited me, a smaller side and he spidered only 5 sides. Disallow or not?

By: Joonny 5

Joonny 5 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:41:26 +0000

Its either CIA or department of homeland security!

By: Alphane Moon

Alphane Moon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:23:05 +0000

Update: Ok, VadixBot disobeys a

User-agent: VadixBot
Disallow: /

in robots.txt. It asked for robots.txt before it spidered my site.