[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Are you dead sure on those early IE's?

I am dead sure the percentage of human beings still using these dinosaurs is infinitesimally small, so small they're not worth worrying about losing. (None of my 3,200+ users have these, for example)

I am also dead sure that entering these into your Mod doesn't interfere with IE 7,8,9 etc. Tested and verified.

I am also dead sure that the IsBot Mod I have is still working, but that since I put the dinosaur IE's in your Mod - it went from catching 40-50 bot registration attempts per day to catching only one or two!

The early IE's are 99.9% of the spam bot problem on the web, because these are easily infected to become botnet zombies. Human spammers are extremely rare, because think about it - if you have to pay someone to spam it kind of defeats the purpose of spamming.

I used to get 1,500 or so visits a day from these early IE computers, and spent months analyzing them and their origins. Never found one that looked like a Human. It is the 21st Century already, and I think it is high time webmasters not only stopped supporting early IE, but should also take steps to just plain block them. If the FBI and Microsoft really wanted to stop the botnet problem, MS would revoke the registration of these, or automatically upgrade them.

I used to use a script that did just that - would detect early IE and install the latest version of firefox, making it the default browser on that computer - using the same exploits that made them botnet zombies in the first place. I virtually wiped out a entire botnet that way, back in 2006 while one of my sites was undergoing a DDoS attack from one.

Your Mod is by far the best weapon against the botnets yet, and I have been studying them and fighting them for at least 10 years.

Max, could you mark as installed please?

I did, on the 3.8.x version I run.