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Guests in our admin only room?
Topic Started: Sep 28 2011, 10:04 PM (493 Views)
stwat
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We have been seeing 'Guests' in our admin/mod hidden forum. This is usually after one of us has posted, left the room and re entered. Is the 'guest' a shadow of ourselves or is something else going on here?

I have logged out and logged back in with my 'test member' just to see if our hidden room can be seen and it can't.

Can someone please explain how we are occasionally seeing guests in our admin/moderator room??

Many thanks,

Stu
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Moonface
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It is quite common for guests to appear on the Online/Active Users List as viewing your board, including areas which they don't have access to. There is nothing to worry about, as this is most likely simply search engines crawling the web, trying to index your board. For example, they might come across a URL to a topic that they don't have access to, and will try to index it. In doing so, they will appear as viewing that particular topic on the Online/Active Users List, but they'll simply receive an error message stating they don't have access.

If you have any more concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know! :)
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cnm
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I was concerned about something similar awhile back (well, this issue plus seeing numerous guests, all with very similar IPs, logged in simultaneously). Turned out they were search engines attempting to crawl the site.

Do you have it set so Guests can "view" it? If so, then Moonface is right. To be doubly safe you might want to set it so Guests cannot even view it.
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