[Midohash]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

I think users awaiting confirmation arent shown on Who's online. Check if the usergroup id is listed in forum.php. Usually the usergroup id of Users Awaiting Email Confirmation is 3 it may be different on your forum. If it is then add that number to the skipgroups array in forum.php like 3,4,5 etc.

PHP Code:

$skipgroups = array(3,4); 


Also set your usergroup permissions so that Users Awaiting Email Confirmation cant post on the forums.

I have tried all those precautions but still users awaiting email confirmation (group ID =3) appear on forum statistics including those on line. However they couldn't post

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The evil guy user agent looks like that:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0

Any suggestions?

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This is the full user agent of the evil guy:

"
host-41.235.34.232.tedata.net - - [27/Oct/2012:19:38:43 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 491 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0"
host-41.235.34.232.tedata.net - - [27/Oct/2012:19:38:44 -0500] "GET /vb/ HTTP/1.1" 200 25587 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0"

Can I use something like that: HTTP/1.1 in ban spiders by user agent?