Did you resolve the user agent on the who's online to see for sure if they weren't spiders? What did the who's online show? They should match up.

Also, PM me somewhere I can send a test fix and we'll see if this catches it if they donlt match up.

have you ever done what i said, goto twitter and unm, put a Bunch of links to your site threads in as tweets?

usually a flood of spiders will hit your site I have never resolved them to see who they are, i just use it to test the spider mod in whats going on, i used to use another one.

but i just made this new site, and i installed yours. thanks by the way.

the only reason i said it wasn't working is that other guy said his wasn't so i flooded twitter, and here they came. but all showed up as guests. heck i dunno they may not be spiders LOL

I just always thought they were, the other mod i used to use always showed them as spiders.

i guess i will do it again and see if i can find out who they are.

heres screen of them little devils oh wow

it just started showing them thats strange...but hey maybe it was just guests showing up when i tweeted that

they are differently showing up as spiders BRO good job and thanks. already rated it MOTM and great

added: now that i see yours working i realize the other mod wasn't showing guests it was showing them as spiders..LOL

I don't have a twitter account and have no desire to have one, to be honest. Not my thing, I guess.

As far as going there and posting links, I would venture to say what you saw earlier is ACTUAL people linking back to the site from the twitter post. Spiders are quick, but they don't act that fast usually. I added some jokes to my site earlier, as I knew it would draw some spiders. I was trying to test the hack after your post. I got a Google spider about 30 minutes later, which is on par.

The best way to test it is compare the amount of spiders on the forumhome and the who's online. If that matches up, then everything is working right. I don't add any code to the who's online as that is all vb doing the spiders there. I just add the total count. But I do add code for pulling the spiders on the forumhome as well as the total count. I have been using this product since way back in 3.5 and it hasn't failed me yet. ;)

I've installed this now on 2 forums, on one forum it shows no spiders and on the other forum is shows everyone but the members as spiders. weird.

You must have something interfering with it then as there should be no way that is happening. I would check the other plugins and see which one is causing the issues. No one else has reported this other than harleyparts and his issue was resolved on his end.

On the forums where you see nothing but spiders, resolve the IPs and let me see what they say. You also have to remember, not all spiders will show up as spiders as some of them have not been added to the spiders_vbulletin file yet. That is why we resolve the IPs so we can see the ident string and add those that are spiders to the spiders file.

Installed....nice mod Boofo.

Thank you, sir. It's been a while. How have you been? ;)

Well here is the skinny, moved to North Carolina 3 years ago after a Heart Attack and Open Heart Surgery only to have another Heart attack earlier this past May...other than that not bad. :p

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better for you real soon. Getting older sucks, huh? ;)