Why is Netscape 8 appearing in Firewall Suite report?

This article applies to:

• Firewall Suite 4.X

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This article provides information as to why you may see Netscape 8 referenced in your Firewall Suite report when the most current version of Netscape is version 6.x.

Instances of Mozilla/8.0 as an agent have been found in different log files. It was determined that this is referencing an international institute of education. Some educational institutes have customized the Netscape browser for themselves and they identified version numbers that Netscape may not have previously used.

Example:

2000-12-14 00:34:40 192.92.7.23 - W3SVC1 SERVER1 192.53.2.10 80 GET /image/comp/7.GIF - 200 - Mozilla/8.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.01;+Windows+98)

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