That is what the spiders.txt file I attached is.

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There's one or two duplicates there but that doesn't matter, however rather than ban baiduspider just ban baidu, you'll have more luck with that as not all baiduspiders have the entire name in the UA, that goes for most of the bots, lets say there's a bot called Simon Lloyd Crawl Everything Everywherespider then the following will ban it:
Simon or Lloyd or Crawl or Spider.....etc
The same goes for:
Lloyd Crawl or Everything or Simon Lloyd....etc (case isnt important)

What the mod does is look for the string you entered, so if you want to ban the spider i mentioned above just Simon will do it, howevere lets say you have a friendly bot called Simon Lloyd Crawled Everything Everywherespider then to ban the first bot and allow the other you'd need to enter a string that is unique to the first one so in this case i could be:
Simon Lloyd Crawl Everything
This way it wont pick up the "Crawl" in the friendly bots name as its looking for the exact string you entered.

Hope that helps.

I need it as asked for, the reason for this is to check for machine charaters and/or leading/trailing spaces, hard returns.....etc

This COULD be the issue I have with mine then. When you look at my txt file you will see that I tried putting in multiple variations. That could be negating the effectiveness.

Maybe as part of the mod could be an updated list that we can copy/paste so that people like me who are clueless don't do the wrong thing.

Keeping in mind that we would want the "good" spiders to get through like google, bing, and the legit ones that are important to SEO, Adsense, and other things like that.

I hope you and Ozzy are disscusing the hook thing as well... he seemed to think that may be important with my 4.2.2 site.

I will say that when I had this mod in place for my 3.8.x site it worked perfectly and I didn't get hit hard till I upgraded to 4.2.2

I saw my server loads go way up....

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There is already a list included and many throughout this thread, i've also explained the above before. I wouldn't update the list of spiders to ban as i've said probably over a dozen times it's a personal thing on what or who you ban.

If you want to pm me access as i've said before i'll take a look.

Here you go.

Right, i've been through your list, i wont comment on the bots you are banning as thats your preference, what i ahve done is ordered the list, checked for anything that shouldn't be there and removed some bots as they will be taken care of by other entries you have.

What i will say is if you are NOT using Paul Ms "Who has visited" mod and you are still seeing any of the bots on your list appear in WOL then you need to check that spiders UserAgent to see if the name or text you have in your list actually appears in the UA.

No no ...I am fine Simon, I have "ZERO" traces of baidu ... I think when you asked for the settings and a shot you were asking Gadget Guy and not me ... but I am fine, I have no problems with the mod not blocking any of the bots at all ... Thank you !!!!

Do you mean this one:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232636


Then, yes... I am using it.

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I have implemented your list.

In regards to your comment about "my list".... I have no idea to be honest.

Those I put in there based on what I was seeing in my WOL and putting things in there to try and block them.

I am sure I was way off base and incorrect in doing so.

So.... in light of this... if you want to provide a "proper" list... I am happy to take your guidance.

I don't know the first thing about any of this stuff and am looking to experts like yourself to assist.

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