[inphinity]

Originally posted by TECK
Hmmmmmm... I'm really pissed... you see the [high]crawler918.com[/high] in the pic above?
That's a spy. Read more here about it.

To block the scums, add onto htaccess.txt file, at the top, this information:

<limit GET>
  order allow,deny
  deny from 12.148.196.
  deny from 12.148.209.
  allow from all
</limit>

then upload the file and rename it to .htaccess
That will block them for good, damn crooks.

deny from 12.148.196.
deny from 12.148.209.

those deny's block more that just the monkeys at crawler918.com
my limit section in htaccess looks like:

<limit GET POST>
  order allow,deny

## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## block crawler918.com - http://www.nameprotect.com
## http://www.advogato.org/article/610.html
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?...AMEPROTECT.COM
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-196-128-1   /25
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-209-192-1   /26
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-175-0-32-1      /28
  deny from 12.148.209.192/26
  deny from 12.148.196.128/25
  deny from 12.175.0.32/28
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## block cyveillance - http://www.cyveillance.com
## http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1587.htm
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?...ut=CYVEILLANCE
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-63-148-99-224-1    /27
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-65-118-41-192-1    /27
  deny from 63.148.99.224/27
  deny from 65.118.41.192/27
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

## =============================================================================
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  allow from all
</limit>

cyveillance do roughly the same thing as nameproctect
also in my robots.txt i've got:

# allow everyone else
User-agent: *
Disallow:

# block turnitin.com
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

www.turnitin.com might be a good cause for teachers - but they charge for accessing the data they've collected - so i'd rather not have them using my bandwidth/server load for free. So they can stay off my site until they decide to give a little back.