WebTrends Log Analyzer filtering

taff posted this at 16:03 — 9th January 2002.

Joined: Jun 2001

Does anyone using this product have some good filter tips for keeping out your reports..

a) search engine spiders. The built in filters just can't keep up with the plethora of them out there! I haven't had much luck playing with *bot* or *crawl* type filters. 15 of my top 20 visitors this month are spiders! I'm afraid of casting too wide a net and filtering out search engine referrers.

b) NT-related hacking attempts. I actually have a pretty good handle on this one but am open to suggestions. I exclude any access attempt to *.ida or the following directories: /scripts /c /d /msadc /_vti_bin /_mem_bin

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

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