Baidu [Spider]

[SilverDeoxys563]

Should I be concerned that it doesn't have the [Bot] tag?

[Julia Pseudo]

No, a spider is just a specific type of bot or something. Nothing to be worried about.

EDIT: It's an alternate name for a web crawler (Wikipedia), a bot used for search engine indexing, to be specific.

[XerX]

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

[HeroOfRhyme]

Spider is a nickname for Google, it's probably a google bot (Ignoring the wiki)

[Julia Pseudo]

^
What? N-no... it's an indexing bot (web crawler/spider) for the Chinese search engine Baidu.

[lighthouse64]

Wouldn't that also mean that it takes stuff from our forum and sends it to the Baidu company???

[aero]

Wouldn't that also mean that it takes stuff from our forum and sends it to the Baidu company???

Welcome to the botnet. It's the price paid for being #1 on search engine results.

[lighthouse64]

Wouldn't that also mean that it takes stuff from our forum and sends it to the Baidu company???

Welcome to the botnet. It's the price paid for being #1 on search engine results.

Oh right *facepalm*

But they sell it to 3rd partys eh.

[Shadow Yoshi]

It's a crawler for Baidu. It has the same color as all of the other bots and it's put there by default; I (or really phpBB, the one who put it there) wouldn't let something malicious onto the forum.