TrendMicro on my site?

[Ellie]

I currently have 10 people viewing my forums. One is me, the other 9 are TrendMicro. Why are TrendMicro, an antivirus maker, wasting my bandwidth? If it's for a valid reason, why would they send 9 of them?

Anyone know?

 

[Sles]

Maybe they are spammers in disguise. If not, I have no clue, maybe 9 people from TrendMicro are browsing your site from their work network?

 

[Ellie]

The most I ever have on normally is 3 :/ But (now 11) from the same place is a bit fishy.

 

[Cruelty]

wtf

shenanigans!

looks like potential spambots... but then again, I don't know much (e.g. nothing) about running a forum.

 

[Ellie]

Well, with SMF you can click a magic button that tells you their IP, and from the IP you can find out their location and their company. They are all definately TrendMicro, or from the same IP... or using their IP's.

 

[Impreza]

TrendMicro looks here what I got, but dont know wether it is the same :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_Micro

 

[Despain]

Sounds like bots just gathering information. I'd ignore them unless they start posting or anything. They'll probably be gone after they have what they want and won't show up again.