Yahoo.Slurpbot

Description

This indicates an attempt by the Yahoo bot to fetch new or updated pages from the server.
Yahoo bot is the search bot software used by Yahoo, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Yahoo search engine.

Affected Products

Yahoo Bot

Impact

Unexpected network communication

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable

Default Ports

• TCP/80

References

• http://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=Yahoo!#id4
• https://help.yahoo.com/kb/search/slurp-crawling-page-sln22600.html