[ic] Help - Under Attack!

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Kevin Walsh)]

Andrew Rich [andrew@mapsdownunder.com.au] wrote:
> 
> I am getting a error log entry every few minutes for same person and my Site
> Traffic is showing this also.
> 
> I am on RH7.3 and are very up2date
> Just upgraded from 4.8.5 to 4.8.6
> 
> Log entries:
> 
> trek17.sv.av.com mq4baQ3f:av.com - [10/November/2002:03:18:55 +3500] mapshop
> /cgi-bin/mapshop/scan/MM=8c9748c472bfd680c77252ce15356f10:1450:1499:50
> search error: Object saved wrong in
> /var/lib/interchange/mapshop/tmp/m/mq4baQ3f.8c9748c472bfd680c77252ce15356f10
> for search ID mq4baQ3f.8c9748c472bfd680c77252ce15356f10. trek17.sv.av.com
> XD6nwQQk:av.com - [10/November/2002:03:26:49 +3500] mapshop
> /cgi-bin/mapshop/scan/MM=66d2d5d78561f9ce8ff00dc1d5824c22:950:999:50 search
> error: Object saved wrong in
> /var/lib/interchange/mapshop/tmp/X/XD6nwQQk.66d2d5d78561f9ce8ff00dc1d5824c22
> for search ID XD6nwQQk.66d2d5d78561f9ce8ff00dc1d5824c22. trek17.sv.av.com
> 
Calm down - you're not being attacked.

A search engine is trying to follow your 'more' links on your category
pages which, of course, it will never be allowed to do.

You can create a robots.txt file to prevent the scan pages from being
shown to search engines or you could give 4.9 a try.  Interchange 4.9 will
recognise the search engine spiders you configure and will allow you to
handle them as you see fit - perhaps by showing all products on one
category page instead of having a matchlimit and showing 'more' links.

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