[Kaemon]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Add the following to your htaccess. Both of the IPs listed are for the Baidu spider. I had a similar issue a few days ago and this stopped them dead in their tracks.

<Files *.*>
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
        deny from 119.63.196.
        deny from 220.181.108.	
</Files>

thanks for the suggestion but, as I understand it, an htaccess file doesn't work on our windows-based server (IIS). We hope to develop a new website in PHP that replaces our ASP.Net website so we can move to apache. That might be a long while though...

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Originally Posted by kh99

There is a free spam blocking product called zbblock which works in the same way (code is inserted at the top of each page).

Thanks! I think we'll try that.

Another admin just tried adding this within the vBulletin header template.

<!-- Block specific IP from continuing -->
<if condition=user[ipaddress] = "119.63.196.***" meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; 
url=http://www.msxlabs.org/banned.php"> 
<!-- End Block of specific IP -->

All of the users/bots from that IP address currently show that they are viewing an error message. At this point, I'm not sure if that's from my code or his code...or if it was there before.