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ajkalan posted:Question from a novice. What is the purpose behind spam bots visiting favicon.ico? I've cut down on most of the wannabe malicious traffic to my site after redirecting the default WordPress login page elsewhere, but now I'm noticing more visits to favicon. I don't have a favicon set up and am not actually concerned about them doing anything, it's more that I'm confused about why they would go there at all. What dumb exploit are they going for? Are you sure it's spam bots? I think browsers will look for a favicon.ico by default, even before loading the page. Idea is that it'd be nice to show the user an icon early without having to wait for the page to load to see where the icon is and then go fetch that icon. Instead browsers will just guess there is something at /favicon.ico and if not, no harm done.
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