Is there any real reason to ban spiders? I always thought having them index a site for search engines was beneficial. It's rare that there are more than a couple on my board and they are generally the usual Goolebots. Or are some of these spiders sent out by spammers to find sites to post their spam on?

I keep forgetting the Rename register.php hack. I'll have to grab that and install it. :up:

Just the ones on the list. The good spiders aren't on the list.

Yes banning the bad spiders is a good idea, they just steal bandwidth, and slow the site down.

And yes, many of them appear in the UA string of autospammers and even human spammers.

Because the list consists of known bad agents, not just known bad spiders. This makes it incredibly flexible as a ongoing tool for strengthening your defenses - since you can always add to the list.

OK, sounds good. I've just installed Ban Spiders and I'll see how it goes! Thanks again you guys! If you ever make it up to Montreal, the beer is on me! :up:

I do assume you added the spiders that are in the list? Also, are you using my spiders.xml from my site?

I added the spiders from the list but the xml I used is the one from this post, which is the one linked to on your site from The Era Of Big Spam Is Over thread...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=268208

It can not be nominated, it has already won MOTM in March 2013. :)

Is this working on 4.2.2 PL1

It was working on 4.2.2 for me until I installed the PL1 patch.

Anyone else having this problem?

Working fine for me on the patch.