Problem With Bad Bot

boro_boy posted this at 09:45 — 26th December 2004.

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Joined: Dec 2004

I am having a problem with a bot, its constantly got around 60 bots on my forum at any one time and my bandwidth has shot up from 0.6 gig a day to 6gig the bot details are below:

e-collector Spider
209.152.169.77
LWP::Simple/5.803

It used hundreds of different ips and the LWP (whatever that is) is always different. Its apparently an email grabber. I have tried blckinh it via robots.txt but it obviously violates that and doesn't listen to it!!! any help with .htaccess? If someone could write a little htaccess for me so i can ban it via that i would be very gratefull.

Thanks

clientcenters posted this at 16:00 — 26th December 2004.

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Joined: May 2004

here's what I found:

http://forums.seochat.com/t3156/s.html
http://techpatterns.com/downloads/spider_blocking.php

boro_boy posted this at 21:55 — 26th December 2004.

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Joined: Dec 2004

thanks:

I actualy stopped this by putting the code below into the .htaccess file:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ".*lwp.*" spambot=1

<Limit GET POST PUT>
   Order allow,deny
   deny from env=spambot
   allow from all
</Limit>

Its apparently a worm which is going around.