User banned question

Worker Joined: Aug 16, 2003 Posts: 107 Location: USA

This is a active user of my site and he was banned could you tell me why he was banned,

THis was under harvester Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862

You have been blocked from entering this site.

You are using a possible Harvester on this site.

All of the following information has been gathered to assist the webmaster
should this need to be report to local or federal officers.

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR
1.1.4322)
Remote Address: 69.171.238.96
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2004-09-13 22:01:29
Block expires: Permanent

NukeSentinelT 2.0.2 by: NukeScripts.net

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:06 pm

The info I found about Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862 is:

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it's pretty obvious that someone is using microsoft url control to automatically check websites for the existence of a basic form to email script which they can use, probably for spamming. this is a very good reason to block microsoft url control.

And:

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Microsoft URL Control - could be anybody, friend or foe. I think this bot also looks for formmail.pl or cgi, to gain access to the website or collect email addresses. I have seen this snoop bot in my logs before and decided to disallow it with robots.txt.
I believe you can stop this bot by .htaccess as well, but in order to avoid blocking to many visitors I haven't gone that far.

I do not know why your user was showing as using this bot or script, unless he was