[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by vb50kgpoo

Hi Simon
Yours is a great product. I made the mistake of uninstalling it in order to use AbyssGuard, which is plagued with problems. I have now reinstalled Ban Spiders By User Agent. One question, are there any ramifications in banning \wbot[\/\-] with your mod? I ask as putting \wbot[\/\-] directly into my htaccess banning mecahism causes issues.
Regards / RSVP

Im ,y mod you are banning any useragent that has any occurrence of one of the strings in your list, i very much doubt that \wbot[\/\-] is found in any useragent as the looks like a regular expression, in my mod simply wbot will do if thats in their useragent.

Originally Posted by vb50kgpoo

Also.......

Does anyone know what these bots are;

Robot ID - Hits - Bandwidth - Last visit - Hits on robots.txt
robot 772 8576221 20121111093454 0
crawl 699 9556953 20121108085243 0
spider 5 114750 20121106065956 0

Bad bots using generic names?

Thats just stats from cpanel awstats and mean nothing other than spiders were identified with those in their identifier.

Originally Posted by vb50kgpoo

That is it !
They go by those generic names only, nothing else.

They are not their useragents, read some of the links that i took time and trouble to post in the mod description on hpw to find the useragent.