I dont fancy banning the ip individually that would take forever and i would do that at the server end.
I also have that plugin for bots installed on my forum and it bans most bots but for some reason it does not work on amazonaws.
Anyway thanks for the advice.I did do a thread here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=323511 but only a few work arounds
cheers