[Coco] source of recent spammer

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 July 2009, Roger Taylor wrote:
><http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_addresses/66.249.67.243>66.249.67.243 IP
>address location & more:
>IP address [<http://www.ip-adress.com/host/>?]: 66.249.67.243
><http://www.ip-adress.com/ipclipboard>Copy
><http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/66.249.67.243>[Whois]
><http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/66.249.67.243>[Reverse IP]
>IP country code: US
>IP address country:
>ip address flag
>United States
>IP address state: California
>IP address city: Mountain View
>IP postcode: 94043
>IP address latitude: 37.4192
>IP address longitude: -122.0574
>ISP of this IP [<http://www.ip-adress.com/isp>?]: Google
>Organization: Google
>Host of this IP: [<http://www.ip-adress.com/host>?]:
>crawl-66-249-67-243.googlebot.com<http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/crawl-66-24
>9-67-243.googlebot.com>[Whois]
> <http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/crawl-66-249-67-243.googlebot.com>[Trac
>e] Local time in United States: 2009-07-12 12:18
>
>
>One aggressive spammer has been coming in with IP ranges 66.249.*.*
>All traces have pulled up the above information.  Why and how would a
>googlebot be posting porn to my forums?  Could the IP addresses be
>fake or spoofed?

I don't know the answer to the last question, but I sure would be advising 
Google of it.  Perhaps they need to weed the employee garden?

-- 
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