We installed a few security features a month ago.
PHP Intrusion Detection System
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/7374
Security Pro:
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5752
Site Monitor:
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4441
Htaccess Protection:
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6066
IP Trap:
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5914
Since that time, our website has been OVERWHELMED with emails with "A Customer has received an HTTP Error" as the subject line.
I think these are being geneerated by the PHPIDS (1st one above)
The problem is that when I look up the IP address of hte error message, it says it's Google. The client received about 1000 (yes, that is not a typo) email messages within 1 week. 90% of which were webcrawlers. The frequency of the emails have not slows down since we installed this about a month ago. I know there is a way to block the IP addresses, but I don't want to do that for the search engines. also, WHY is Google looking for a page THAT DOES NOT EXIST. The url http://www.bellperformance.com/64KPN8Cyj/ does not exist. I'm so confused. Thank you for your assistance.
Here is the error message with the URL.
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Site: http://www.bellperformance.com.
Error Code: 403 - Forbidden
Occurred: 01/13/2011 17:25:10
Requested URL: http://www.bellperformance.com/64KPN8Cyj/
User Address: 66.249.67.111
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referer:
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