Installed! Works great!

Glad to hear. :)

Don't say nothing for me is the best add on (plugin) for VB

Installed => Updated => Works fine VB 4.2.2 PL3 and finally stop bad bots/spiders.

Glad you like it and its doing its job :)

I have been using this mod in combination with 'Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering' and 'Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban' for the last 3 weeks and have had only one spammer get through and register on my forum. Previously, 100's were getting through.

I have attached my 'Ultimate Spider List' to be used with this mod. It's a combination of the 3 lists that are linked in the 1st post of this thread. I imported them into excel, removed the duplicates and sorted alphabetically. Simon Lloyd, feel free to add a link to the file in your first post.

Glad to hear that the mods are working so well for you, that is why I recommend them. :)

Need to take MSIE 1 off the list, that bans IE 10 and 11.

Yes, I had that problem.

If you want to ban MSIE 1, you need to use MSIE 1. (dot at the end).

I would also suggest adding the new Recapatcha! It is pretty amazing!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=315960

Updated and re-uploaded the Ultimate Spider List txt file in post #765 to include the dot after MSIE1. Thanks!

Just seen I have 2 Baidu spiders on my forum. I am using vB 4.2.2 PL4 (upgraded from PL2 5 mins ago) and the latest version of this mod.

That is strange, I have been on 4.2.2 pl4 for five days now, and still not one made it through.

I've seen them slip through during times where you've had hooks off, like if you were working on something?

Hello Everybody,

Could someone please post me the actual numbers (777?) for the permissions for the output.txt file?

I really like the mod, I had over 30 of the Baidu spiders on my forum. In less than a hour they are gone.

Thanks a Million for all the effort that went into this mod!
DJ5A

PS: I clicked installed... :D

Try 644 or 777

where i see the statistics ?
what do you mean forum home statistics ?

It shows up in the What's Going On area at the bottom of the forums.

You mean Spiders ? If spiders i already Hide

Installed....works great with vB 4.2.2 pl 4!

Working well with vB 4.2.3 Beta 4 also! :D

on line 429 there is a spelling mistake Bot Mamanger should be Bot Manager
line 417 entity should be entry

Lol thanks for that, although it kind makes it unique :)

Thanks to ozzy was getting a error with this mod he was kind enough to help fix the problem. If you want access to my site Simon to see the fix I can give it to you pm me if you need it

I think it was unique to your site, as I don't remember getting that error in the logs when I was running this mod.

Maybe other mods were messing this one up hard to know if you want to post the fix you done, please do then Simon can run whatever tests he needs

Spiders/Bots Activity Blocked From Site: 4,052

i got this, any idea?

got it where? how?

I've had this installed for a while but recently went to check the logs and it hasn't had any updates in a loooong time. So I deleted the log file and uninstalled the mod. Then reinstalled the mod, set the settings back up and it is showing on the bottom of my forum that spiders are being blocked, but hasn't recreated the log file... I tried manually making the file and setting the permissions but it still didn't write to it. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Andrew

installed

Chances are you dont have permissions to write to the location it's trying to create the log at, if you do then the log permissions need looking at, you'll have to CHMOD them on your server so you can write to it.

Installed. Let's see what we get!

Installed....works great

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEE HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

I have setted the plugin to redirect to the ip of the bots there are in the list, but it redirect everyone to the own ip, so the site is from today inaccessible.
How can I delete manually the plugin from ftp for a while??

Thanks in advance

Download your file "includes/config.php" and add this to the top, right below "<?php":

Then go into the AdminCP and disable the mod, then comment out the line you added to config.php to re-enable your plugin hooks.

Magic Mark!
Really thank you... I was waiting this answer like water in the desert... :)
Thanks... I'm trying.

Wow MarkFL you rock!!

Really many thanks you really save me... All the day that no one was understanding what was going on.
This bug would be resolved....

Thanks again Mark I wish you all the best. ;)

Using Cloudflare by any chance?

What's happened here isn't a bug in the Mod, it's something unique to your site.

Hi Max, no I don't use Cloudflare, but I have only set the option to let redirect the bot to their own ip but then no one was able to reach the forum, everyone was treated like bot.
So if this is never succeeded with no one maybe is my forum...

Must be something you shouldn't have, in the ban list I would think.

Then quite sure..
because I added "Mozilla" to make a test in that list.
Thanks for the info.
But another thing we have seen that this app is using really more cpu.
Is this normal? And if yes, why?
We had to disable it to reduce the cpu load because have an high increment when is active.

And that caused the entire problem.
I've never seen this Mod cause high CPU load, but I imagine it might be able to do so depending on the settings, and the items in the list you're using.