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StephenKay · #**315** 03-09-2011, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by adwade

One available alternative is ZB BLOCK. It just requires a single line of CODE added to your global.php file and your vB forum is protected from many kinds of bad 'bots.. Oh yeah, and it's FREE!

ZB BLOCK
Don't let the robots in the door!
A GPL V2 PHP Protection Script for your site.

This php security script is designed to detect certain behaviors detrimental to websites, or known bad addresses attempting to access your site. It then will send the bad robot (usually) or hacker an authentic 403 FORBIDDEN page with a description of what the problem was. If the attacker persists, then they will be served up a permanently recurring 503 OVERLOAD message with a 24 hour timeout.

Thanks for this link! This is exactly what I have been looking for as I am continuously being bombarded with hacker-bots attacking my register.php script, leading my ISP to threaten to close down my site for using too much of the shared resources.

I've installed it and already the log fie is showing many malicious bots being turned away. We'll see how it goes...but looks good!

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