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Something/someone from 40.96.18.165 has been hitting my web server exactly eight times a day everyday since Feb 5, 2017. The user agent used is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0).

Look ups will show the IP address is from Microsoft.

Anything sinister going on?

Old Geezer
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    The internet is full of background noise from scripts, bots and scanners, some malicious and some not, all running web requests and more. Without a more detailed traffic analyses I would guess that just a couple of HTTP requests are pretty harmless. – HBruijn Apr 28 '17 at 05:40
  • If you don't want this to happen, just block it at the firewall. – EEAA Apr 28 '17 at 13:00

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It may be bing crawling your website to index it, as your IP is indeed in some Microsoft owned block.

But the real question is: why is it a problem for a given IP to come to your website 8 times a day? I doubt that this produce any kind of load or problems?

Just check if it is attempting some attacks (SQL injections, XSS, etc…) and if not, stop worrying about these accesses.

Patrick Mevzek
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