I wasn't sure if I should or not...

I posted a list of the ones I block, earlier in this thread. All are there for very good reason. They aren't helpful to the site, they leech too much resources, or they are typically botnet zombies. Bad actors all.

Thanks for the help Max :)

Heh. I never explained how to use your Mod....:p

I was under the impression that it was self explanatory, maybe i should add to the first post?

I got the same impression...

I must say..... This was the only thing I found to get rid of those damn Baidu spiders! I averaged 50 - 65 baidu spiders at one time. I often had almost as many guests online as I did users.

Now I am perfectly fine with 1-5 google & bing spiders online. 50+ spiders that simply don't help me? yea... No thanks!

Baidu is evil.

This mod is great! I cannot express how wonderful this mod is and how well it works. Tie that into how responsive and resourceful Simon is and it's a winner. Thanks for all the help and clarification within the comments to Simon, Max, Force, and all!

My forum is young and relatively slow as it were, but I wish to stay ahead of the game on this one and keep my security up as the server load increases. I don't see the spiders that were stopping by for a visit anymore. :)

Thanks again and keep up the good work
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vB4.2.0

Glad you like it and it works well for you, i think your our first vb4.2.x so it's good to know it works upward :)

I know it's a pain but do familiarise yourself with the info that can be found at the links in the first post, these will help you as your forum gets busier, also take the time to research some of the bots, they're not all bad, some will even help your site grow.

Be mindful about who and which nations you are going to cater for before banning/allowing bots to crawl your site and you'll be golden.