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Old June 8th, 2006
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It's a bit odd that you still see that many requests. The user
was running a GWebCache at your site at some point but that was
2-4 years ago. I'm even more suprised that people still use such
old software as BearShare 4.x. I believe there's nothing anyone
can really do about this. Such old software shouldn't even attempt
to connect to GWebCaches. It's a blatant shame it does - albeit
the identification as BearShare COULD be faked, so one cannot
be absolutely sure about this.

Anyway, one request per 20 seconds shouldn't be a threat for
any webserver but I understand that it's very annoying. You
might want to put the worst offenders into your firewall's
blocklist.

Even if BearShare fixed the issue, there's nothing they can
do about old software.
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