What does this mean?

[Gal]

It means that the Bing search engine has had a look at our site. Bing is a bit like google and yahoo........

Mick says it isn't a threat

I have Bing on the desktop Glad it's 'just' that

[louise]

Lou hopes Sinatra might just look in later too.

[Kaz]

Are we in for a White Christmas do you reckon?

[Workingman]

I'm dreaming of one...

[miasmum]

My mobile phone uses Bing

[Suff]

Just a point here.

I can't see it in the user list (perhaps hidden), but if it's presenting itself in the Registered Users class, it has the rights to spider our pictures for public viewing of any images it caches.

Do we really want that??

[gripsky]

Hi
Bots such as crawlers are recognised as such with phpBB3, they are recognised by their ip address

they have no more access than any other non authenticated user. by default they have no specific role assigned

in phpbb2 they were unrecognised however from a spider perspective there is no difference. There are no more specific security implications than there were on the previous reincarnation


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[Diflower]

That's ok then

[Osc]

Yeah we see these bots all the time on our ballroom forum - they always show as being registered members, which of course they are not

[Suff]

Hi
Bots such as crawlers are recognised as such with phpBB3, they are recognised by their ip address

they have no more access than any other non authenticated user. by default they have no specific role assigned

in phpbb2 they were unrecognised however from a spider perspective there is no difference. There are no more specific security implications than there were on the previous reincarnation


.

Hi,

I'd say it's a bug then reporting it as a registered user. So long as we're aware it's not an issue.

Thanks.