Title: Question about Googlebot
Last modified: December 29, 2016

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# Question about Googlebot

 *  [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-googlebot/)
 * Hi! This morning, I’m seeing some unusual activity in the Wordfence 6.2.9 “Live
   Traffic” log:
 *     ```
       URL:	http://www.{mysite}.com/wp-content/uploads/shareaholic/spritegen/sprite.css
       Type:	Normal request
       Full Browser ID:	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
       ```
   
 * Could hackers be using Googlebot to probe sites for installed plugins, etc, to
   avoid being blocked if they probe the site directly? My site is simple and have
   no clue why ANYTHING in the “uploads” directory would be anything Googlebot would
   crawl. Should this be a cause for concern?
 * Thanks!
 * Peace…

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 *  Thread Starter [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-googlebot/#post-8602130)
 * Thanks for the reply. What concerns me is:
 * 1) We don’t have Shareaholic installed
 * 2) The IP address being logged does resolve to a machine in Google’s domain. 
   So, the IP address appears to be legit.
 * I’m wondering if hackers are now using Googlebot (or other bots) to sniff out
   vulnerabilities in WordPress installations.
 * I’ll certainly look for any directories in “wp-content/uploads” that don’t look
   familiar.
 * Thanks!
 * Peace…

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-googlebot/#post-8602130)
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