: What is User-Agent "AF_ID=" We periodically (more frequently recently) have very agressive crawling activity coming from EC2 instances that give us a user agent that looks like AF_ID=<xxxxxx>.

We periodically (more frequently recently) have very agressive crawling activity coming from EC2 instances that give us a user agent that looks like AF_ID=<xxxxxx>.

I've looked around for common User-Agent formats and I cannot seem to find any references to these User Agents. Do any of you know what these would be, or is it just a generic user-agent used by EC2 instances?

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@Cofer257

It's just some random scam/spam crawler hosted on EC2.
My only advice, add this to your .htaccess :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*AF_ID=* [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ english-1335426938.spampoison.com/English [R=303,L] #http ://tinyurl.com/troll-face-bot :)

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: What is User-Agent "AF_ID=" We periodically (more frequently recently) have very agressive crawling activity coming from EC2 instances that give us a user agent that looks like AF_ID=<xxxxxx>.

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