Thank you gentlemen. I did the import and 3.0.2 is now showing in my 'Installed Products', is that all I have to do, is it now active?

I might be almost 70, but how embarrasing, WOL = Who's On Line, sorry, should have seen that.

was thinking of another plugin, really should sleep more lol

Wonderful stuff, I can't thank you enough, and for the install instruction as well.
Baidu was creating havoc on my forum, sometimes there were around 30 at the same time and now there are none.

I have voted this mom and recommend the writer is taken out for a beer or 3.

Installed and working fine. (vb 4.1.5)

I'll be round to colect those beers :)

Glad it's working as you expected!

Can you modify this mod so as the output.txt file is stored in a folder of your choosing which can then be CHMOD for read/write access, I don't like the idea of having my entire forum folder having that sort of access.

Unless I am missing something of course :P

Epic mod/hack this thanks very much.

marked as installed.

gigawiz.

Your entire forum folder isn't being given "that sort of access", it's simply one text file all restictions that all your other files have are and have never been unchanged, if i get time (really bogged down with working 2 jobs at the moment) i'll add a custom box so that you can set where the file is written but if you CHMOD that to read only then how can it write to it?

The contents of the output.txt do not give any information about your site that you cannot get from browsing your site or its users, the fact that it's just bot information makesit even less desirable info :)

Glad you like the mod ;)

Simon:

thank you for this awesome mod. It works like a charm.

However, I am receiving this below and If I do not want them to visit my webiste, what else can I do ? Is there a way to ban them when they type in the domain namẻ

DATE: 11-04-2011 14:58:13

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

has visited

http://kieumau.net/index.php/forum/f...E1%BA%A3?ltr=F

Found In Your List As Baidu

Regards,

Ban Spider Mod

Installed, voted and nominated.

Victor

Don't worry that you are getting notification, they have many many ip's, they are getting redirected before your forum, thread or post that they request loads, you get notofication of the thread they attempted to call.

So in a nutshell Victor, the mods working great, relax and worry not :)

Edit: You don't need to use the full UA to ban them, you can simpy use Baidu in the list and that will do the trick, using the full UA means you are only banning anything that visitis with that entire UA so if they use one thats slightly different they'll get through but using just Baidu will trap them all!

Victor, you should also upgrade to the very latest version 3.0.2

Simon:

Thanks for the info .

I look through a list of 20 emails and found out that the duration for each email was 4 minutes consistantly. So, they must automated the access and record the results if any. That is why if somehow, as soon as they enter the domain name, the redirect will take them to a sex website for example. Before I have 5 spiders on my site 24 hours a day. I donot know why they target my website.

It is working awesome with your mod.

Thanks again.

Victor:up: