Re: Re: Active User Hacking A
  By: Daryl Stout to TONY LANGDON on Wed Feb 27 2019 09:28 am

 > Tony,
 >
 > TL>I only allow uploads in "Uploads to the Sysop", but I'm the only user who
 > ca TL>view and download files in there.
 >
 >   That's the way it's set up over here. Plus, guest logons can't upload
 > at all. And, I modified the Guest account to now have the name of GUEST
 > USER with a password of BROWSE. Now, anyone trying to logon as GUEST
 > (with or without a password) or as anonymous, gets the message "Unknown
 > User". One FTP connect tries anonymous as the user name with
 > googlebot@google.com

You sure that's not the password? The google ftp-crawler normally logs in (ftp)
using the name "anonymous" and the password "googlebot@google.com". The best
way to filter those logins is to put that email address in your text/email.can
file. In fact, this is in the sock email.can file:

; Prevent Google's FTP-crawler by uncommenting the following line:
; googlebot@google.com

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