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Google "MSNPTC". Last I checked, nobody could understand it, but it's a weird bot. I had it hammering one of my sites with bogus referrals. Many hits per second. I just blocked it.

(ModSecurity is a fantastic Apache module for blocking bots, attacks, and all manner of junk, btw)



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