Well i suppose the secondd of those two links has more explanation but i didn't get that from your post, i thought you wanted links to lists posting, but for my money that can be a bad thing, people would then blindly enter all the bots to the banning list when really, dependant on their content, they will want some of those scraping or visiting their site, it's a personal preference really.

I built this because the bots were killing my bandwidth and making the forum slow so i ban the more agressive ones like Baidu, why on earth would they need 215 bots indexing my site?, so ban them in favour for the less aggressive :)

Anyway as an information post this link explains what they are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot

Yeah, 215 Chinese bots leeching resources, to allegedly index your site for people who most likely can never see it. Most US sites are blocked in China. Baidu makes no sense at all, it certainly doesn't help anybody. By far the worst behaving bot out there, it totally ignores robots.txt.

Lol, thanks Force ;)

Since upgrading to vB4.1.10, I've noticed (occasionally) some spiders in the list still showing up online.
Anyone else having this issue, and any ideas what's going on?

TiA

You shouldn't unless they are using a different UA, the spiders xml that you can download from Mosh's site (vb.com thread) may have them in the list with the same name but their UA may be different to that in the list :)

A couple of examples of ones in my list that (recently) show as online;
AhrefsBot
Exabot
gigabaz
Heritrix
Majestics MJ12bot

I though this hack picked up on all things similar (name based)?... ie "Majestics" should also take out "Majestics MJ12bot", regardless of the software they're using to access the site.

How do we include same name spiders in our list that are using different UA's?

You are right entering Exabot should prevent that bot viewing your site, however entering "Majestics MJ12bot" will not stop a bot with either "Majestics" or "MJ12bot" it will only stop bots with that entire phrase as part of their UA, so if you want to ban that bot enter the seperated values.

Can you give me a link to your site?

Simon, I thought about that and included the individual entries when the issue first arose.

nscale.net ... however, the WGO block is only visible to members... PM me if you want temporary access.

what does this option mean? " Create new thread for each UA detection (be aware that this can cause hundreds of threads at first until spiders get the mesage!)
You can use this even if you aren't using the ban option above" also what does this option do. will it creat a thread in my forum?

ALSO WHY IN A DISCRIPTION FROMA MEMBER DO THEY HAVE THIS OPTION SET TO YES??