I tried three variants and made sure I wernt going to be locked out the forums. Never do anything without a get out of trouble method :D

First off was two versions of xp
Windows*XP
Windows\XP

Tried viewing over at bots vrs browsers with a simple user agent of Windows XP
When neither of those two worked, I made sure I had another browser fired up, just in case I blocked myself and any browser with any mention of windows in the user agent
And tried plain old Windows XP

Worked a treat. Same as blocking Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and MSIE 5
No need for any extra variables :up:

I think you'll find they are still using SOSO too as right now i have 6 of them trying to access my site :)

Lee, you're a star :), i just checked the UA from the vb4 version issue and it's not this mod keeping their client out of the forum, until you nudged me i'd completely forgot about bots v browsers even though i have quoted it many times here at vb.org in the past!

Im just good at breaking things, ask any software developer or skin seller that I use :D

Another one to consider adding to the block list is UnwindFetchor/1.0
They are another scrape for gain outfit, by the looks of it

Another one thats good for monitoring or just plain banning is this
;)
I checked it works as is. Its a give away to a messed about with user agent

Google JP must be getting busy :D

Hi Lee, did you mean the wink?

Should have wrapped it in php tags :D
This is one example of one use agent thats been modified
Use the tracking system and see how many user agents use it.
They think by taking out some information, you wont catch on and ban them :D

One use agent that had a bad habit of trying to inject base64 when I used the other blocking system was this one
libwww-perl

Another that only ever hits from ips on honeypot is this
w3m/

The good thing about this mod, you can track and then decide if its worth banning
Older user agents are worth watching as well. Firefox is an easy one to watch.
Firefox gives you the date the version came out

This example
If you look at the Geko/ part. It gives the date the version of firefox was released
I ban Firefox/1 and Firefox/2

Opera dont have many use it. I personally love the browser, but its another browser that auto updates. You can catch a lot of low life that way
Present version of Opera is Version/11.51

Hi Guys, just to let you know there is a brand new product uploaded with everything fixed :)

New product uploaded now with automatic redirect to spiders/bots own ip :)

marked as installed

I uninstalled the vb4 version and installed this one as per the instruction earlier on in the thread. This mod really is just epic and no vb forum should be without it.

EDIT - I have disabled the mod from creating new threads but it is still doing it, I have removed all the user info from the settings (user ID and forum ID) and it still posts threads which do not exist! Please help before I go totally round the bend :(

Thank you in advance.

gigawiz.