Thank you for letting me know it was you, a legitimate reader of my blog. I appreciate it. I will be removing the restriction on your IP address, just in case you want to come by later.

I used it for a forum I was using and it looks like I may have reused the window without reseting it from weblogs.macromedia.com and left it running in the background while I was working.

I do aplogise and no harm was meant.

Cheers.

Certainly, one hit a minute should not be a threat to a web server but still is annoying. 30,000 hits/day, now that’s very annoying, unless they are from legitimate users

Thanks and good luck to you too.

You can check with http://www.completewhois.com to see who the guy is. Although it is annoying, one hit per minute is nothing. I was hit 20,000 times per day recently for a few days from different IP addresses and also a couple of weeks ago 30,000 hits in one day from another.

It seems odd that your guy has no referrer URL which is the normal method for referral spammers. They tend to spam sites that do not publish referrers such as mine because they don’t check, they use a scatter gun approach. The fact that your guy has no referrer URL makes me think it might be a technical issue his end?

good luck Eddie, hope you don’t get too much of this.

My web host has an option to block all traffic from specific IP addresses or an IP range. I used this option to block this IP entirely.

As far as protecting my network at home, I have a router (that acts as a hardware firewall) and Norton Internet Security (as a software firewall). I cannot imagine a home PC without a firewall, you’ll be hacked in no time, especially if you have an always-on Internet connection (like cable or DSL).