[DarkWarriorXII]

Okay. I'm always looking at the Who's Online for my forum. Of course I have IP addresses enabled for admins. Anyway, there's been this one guest (I know it's the same guest cause of IP's) who has been at the site for about 24 hours a day for the past week. It's always doing something, too. So if it's 4:50, it's latest activity will be 4:50. If it's 11:23. It's latest activity will be 11:23. It's hardly ever more than one minute off. I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to ban the IP address, in case it's a very curious potential member who thinks I just might enable some features for guests (which is what it seems like). But then again it's like freaking me out because it's always doing something.

Has this ever happened to anyone here? What did you do about it?

[Pico]

First of all, is the "user" going around viewing the other pages?

Second, it might just be a person actually trying to freak you out, who knows. It can also be a potential member as you said, or even a hacker. Nothing can be ruled out, really.

If it's just viewing the index all the time, there is a big chance of it just being a Google bot that has been messed up a little so it can't go somewhere else.

[DarkWarriorXII]

Well I have the spiders hack installed so it shows the names of spiders. And this user does go to all sorts of places. It's always trying to post and add events to the calender, even though it's not allowed.

[Michael]

Originally Posted By: DarkWarriorXII Well I have the spiders hack installed so it shows the names of spiders. And this user does go to all sorts of places. It's always trying to post and add events to the calender, even though it's not allowed.

Weird, i dont think it is a major cause for concern though, your forums are targetting those who may not be fully aware of the message board system of registering, and may be unabliged to reveal personal information. Therefore was trying to add events, make posts to test out guest settings.

[DarkWarriorXII]

But the thing is that the same guest kept trying to add events to the calendar, as an example, every day. You'd think he/she would learn that if it didn't work yesterday or the day before, it won't work today. Oh well.