how can i keep bots away?

[cs347]

i hope this not is wrong section
well i want to know if any1 can tell me how i can
protect my forum from bots my last forum failed becouse of it

please a little help?:confused:

[DragonBlade]

Well, for many bots, you can create a robots.txt file and put it in the root directory of your server.

http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

Note that not ALL bots search for this file, though.

[EDIT] Unless you meant spambots. XD Sorry, wasn't even thinking about that.

[Mellymonster]

These are great and have worked for me :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183917&highlight=bots
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132482&highlight=Captcha+Image

[Wired1]

Do you mean search bots from google, yahoo, etc., or spammer bots?

If the latter I'd HIGHLY recommend vbStopForumSpam (http://https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=176481).

[cs347]

well this bots spams alot it that i want away