KYMJ Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 What's this? Yahoo[bot] It's on the list of users. I've never seen it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 The major search engines have these little "bots" that go out and retrieve info for use in their databases. I'm told that, unless they are eating up bandwidth, they are perfectly harmless. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLHTAZ Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Yep...Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc, etc... All the major search engines use them to get the info that you find when you use one of those searches. They are harmless...and they used to be called "spiders". I can't remember if phpbb offers it, but in some forum software there is a setting that will keep them from showing in the "users online" list at the bottom of the index page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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