I doubt there's a pc on the planet that still uses MSIE 1,2 or 3 :)

Remember this mod was built to ban spiders or bots which usually display their bot name in their UA, using the mod outside of that scope is bound to take you in to some grey areas, make sure you use the tools shown in the original post of this thread to check new UA's before you ban them.

Is there a way to block MSIE 1 without affecting MSIE 10?

All you can do is add a space after it, but again all it will do is look for MSIE 1_ where _ is the space (it doesn't physically look like _ that was for illustration purposes), but if it doesn't appear in the UA with a space after it, it wont ban it.

Thanks.

Another general question. I understand that malicious bots can fake the UA. Why don't they all fake it to display as Google? This way anybody would be hesitant to block them? BTW I do use your IP ban mod also.

Yes this was covered earlier in the thread, and have since removed MSIE 1 from my list. This was months ago. Like Simon said, the number of surviving computers on the planet still using MSIE1 is so tiny, it's not worth blocking.

Some of them do so, but it's very easy to spot those fakes since Google only uses one or two IP addresses. I am pretty sure there's a Mod for blocking spoofed google UA's somewhere.

I found this information about verifying Google bot. And used this tool http://ipadmin.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php. Is this the best way? Or is there a list of the IP addresses google uses?

I'd appreciate a link to the mod you mentioned, I searched and can't find it.

Hi Simon,

Hope you got your forum problems sorted :)

I noticed that the mod will not create new threads on private forums, where only admins can post/read.
I am using my admin account as thread creator, so it has permissions to create threads. The threads are created only on public forums where other members and guests can see them, which of course isn't nice.

The output.txt file writing is also not logging anything.

But from my server logs, I see this mod has been doing incredibly well in blocking some nasty spiders (mainly Magpie and Spinn3r).

For those who don't check their server logs, I would advise to check them and see if Magpie is sucking up to 40% of bandwidth as it was until recently in one of my sites.

I only vaguely remember seeing such, and it was sometime back. And I might even be wrong.

Glad it's working for you, on my forum I simply added a forum where only staf had permissions to view and made the threads there, I also had no issue with logging.

I did get my forum issues sorted, turns out it was a half assed script kiddie attempt to kill it but got it sorted (one of my forums allowed html in the post environment....really bad idea!). When I get chance (which will be after Thursday as my wife is having an op) I will retest the mod from scratch and post specifics here.