i suppose it shld be pretty safe to use the default list of spider list to ban on this plugin? i've no idea which to prune.....

There are quite a few lists posted throughout this thread, take a look at them, if you use the built in one then

See if the default one helps the issue you're having, first. Is my suggestion. The default list is a good list.

Is there a mod for vb 4.x.x

Found on the developer's profile:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=268208

Really love this mod a lot and works great on 4.2.1

Finally Baidu is not showing up anymore in my "online users" list.

I saw another bot recently searching my forum and from some research it seems to be a bad one also: AhrefsBot http://blocklistpro.com/content-scra...o-spybots.html

I added this to my list:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/2.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)
and
Mozilla*Ahref

Was this the correct way to do it?

NO!!!



Including "Mozilla" and "compatible" in this list blocks just about the entire world!

Get rid of that entry and simply put: "AhrefsBot" in instead!

Thank you for the quick reply.
I was reading post #127 and 128 and thought as long there is something behind the "mozilla" in the same line there wouldn't be an issue. My mistake I guess

You might be right but 1.) I wouldn't risk it, and 2.) it's not necessary.

When banning whatever you add to the list will be looked for in its entirety, so if you enter "today" then it will ban:
Today
thisdayistoday
wheretodayis
one day today

if you entered "here today" then it will not ban:
one day today
thisdaytoday
today....etc

but it will ban:
we were here today
allhere todayagain....etc

When banning bots make sure you go to WOL and check out their UA as it may not contain their name in the UA.