Many visits with Netscape Browser in log import mode

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Hi,
I installed Piwik in Log import mode, and I found that the most used Browser is… Netsacpe??
I searched into the logs that I import using the python script, and “Netscape” never occurs.
I noticed something similar on your demo sites: Netscape never occurs in demo.piwik.org, but is largely the most used browser in demo-log-analytics.piwik.org.
May be there’s something wrong in the user agent parser when running in log import mode? Or in the import script itself?
Thank you in advance!

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There is probably something wrong. can you isolate a few User agents causing problems where Piwik is obviously wrong, and please create a ticket on dev.piwik.org and I will investigate a fix.

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Hi Matt,
thank you for your answer.
It seemed to me that it’s something related to bots, so I tried to empty the database and re-import logs (via import_logs.py) without the “–enable-bots” option: the result is that visits marked as Netscape are quite less in number.
I could not isolate User agents causing problems, so i put a little “write to log” line in UserAgentParser.php, just after the line:
$info[‘id’] = ‘NS’;
that identifies UA as Netscape.

So i found the following strings:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Blekkobot; ScoutJet; +http://blekko.com/about/blekkobot)
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Genieo/1.0 Genieo: Webmaster Information)

I will continue search for other UA causing problems, meanwhile I’m going to open a ticket as you suggested.
Thank you!

EDIT
I opened the following ticket:
http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/3788