Is anybody else out there with their own website seeing a lot of strange web requests? In the last 10 days I have received 2400 requests from unique IP address all with the same browser string ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"), requesting the same page ("/"), none of which have a referrer. For comparison in a normal week I would get maybe 5 or 10 legitimate requests for that URL.

I am wondering if this is just the latest and greatest windows virus looking for new victims or if there is something else going on.

-Mike