lurking guest

[arl275]

Forum URL: love2bmoms.proboards33.com

My board is set to be a members only board, however, for the past 2-3 weeks, at least, we have had a lurking guest on our board. They are on at all times of the day, for varying amounts of time. The IP that keeps showing up is 66.249.72.106. I'm just wondering if whoever this is can see anything, and what can be done to get rid of them. There is personal information shared by my members, and I just want to protect their privacy.

[Storm]

arl275 said:

Forum URL: love2bmoms.proboards33.com

My board is set to be a members only board, however, for the past 2-3 weeks, at least, we have had a lurking guest on our board. They are on at all times of the day, for varying amounts of time. The IP that keeps showing up is 66.249.72.106. I'm just wondering if whoever this is can see anything, and what can be done to get rid of them. There is personal information shared by my members, and I just want to protect their privacy.

They will not be able to view the board. You can check this by logging out and trying to view the board and it will give you the error you must log to read forum message. You could always block that ip in your bann list it's probably a google bot.

[Martyn Dale]

Its just a google bot, im pretty sure that ip is in the list to hide, but for some reason its not

[The Adorable Snowman]

Yep, that'd make sense because I think the same IP appears on my forum sometimes.

I thought it was pretty weird! Lurking guest lol.

Now I know it's not I can sleep well again hehe.

Edit: 66.249.72.7 Today at 23:15

[[K]hAoS]

A google bot is a bot that is always scanning your forum and taking caches and other thing to add to google's search facilities. No need to worry about it.

If you say you've seen the IP on the main forum before then chances are its one of your members