psycheclone

KingM · 06-11-2006, 02:53 PM

I had an ununusual spike in activity today and when I went to my web
logs I found that something called psycheclone was hitting my website
again and again. It behaves like a spider, but it has returned many
times and downloaded every page on my site. It's no danger to my
bandwidth at this point, but it still makes me wonder. Does anyone know
what this might be? Google didn't turn up anything.br
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Anita · 06-11-2006, 06:17 PM

Yes, psycheclone has been to my site as well. I don't know what it is, or where it came from. it hasn't done any damage to my bandwidth, but I'm also curious to know something about it.

mondine · 06-11-2006, 06:40 PM

Well, I guess everyone's seen the same bits and pieces that I have on a Google search.
It's a very active crawler, and there is some speculation that it's a scraper bot, trolling the net for some specific information.
The IP block is definitely a company called Digital Infinity Ltd. But it seems to have it's finger in a lot of different pies,
so it's hard to deduce the purpose of the bot from that.
I'd guess that it's most likely some sort of market research for private client use.
What that use actually is....who knows?

06-11-2006, 02:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
KingM Noogle Join Date: May 2006 Location: Vermont Posts: 14 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	psycheclone I had an ununusual spike in activity today and when I went to my web logs I found that something called psycheclone was hitting my website again and again. It behaves like a spider, but it has returned many times and downloaded every page on my site. It's no danger to my bandwidth at this point, but it still makes me wonder. Does anyone know what this might be? Google didn't turn up anything.br br a href="http://theopinionator.com]http://theopinionator.com/abr

06-11-2006, 06:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Well, I guess everyone's seen the same bits and pieces that I have on a Google search. It's a very active crawler, and there is some speculation that it's a scraper bot, trolling the net for some specific information. The IP block is definitely a company called Digital Infinity Ltd. But it seems to have it's finger in a lot of different pies, so it's hard to deduce the purpose of the bot from that. I'd guess that it's most likely some sort of market research for private client use. What that use actually is....who knows? __________________

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06-11-2006, 06:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Anita Senior Googler Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 233 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yes, psycheclone has been to my site as well. I don't know what it is, or where it came from. it hasn't done any damage to my bandwidth, but I'm also curious to know something about it.

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