Miscellaneous Hacks - Ban Spiders by User Agent

What this mod does
With this mod you can enter User Agents to watch or ban, you can also recieve emails or have an Output.txt created and updated with time and date of visits. It doesn't just have to be spiders, you can watch, log or ban any useragent!

How to install
Simply import the product ban_spider, the mod is active by default but none of the other options are turned on.

What is a UserAgent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

Understanding a UserAgent string
http://user-agent-string.info/parse

Genuine User Getting Blocked?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=105

Tools to help
http://whatsmyuseragent.com/SwitchingUserAgents.asp
http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/SimulateUserAgent.asp

FAQ
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=137

How does it work?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=381

What's a bot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot

How do i ban a bot?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=318
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=51

Where's output.txt located?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=216

Bad bot lists
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=259
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=224
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=281

Tested on vb3.7.x, vB3.8.x , vB4.x.x but should work on any version.

__________________________________________________ __________________
Special thanks to:
Lior
KH99
BoP5
for helping me sort out a few issues

...and beta testers
ForceHSS (Special thanks to Force for latest testing)
ozzy47
GreyHost

If you use this please mark as INSTALLED

History
9th June 2011 Orginal xml added
12th June 2011 Added both email notification and text file logging
22nd June 2011 Version 2.0.0, Added create thread on activity

1. Added match facility you can now use something like Yandex and it will match MOZILLA/5.0 (COMPATIBLE; YANDEXBOT/3.0; +HTTP://YANDEX.COM/BOTS)
2. Added clickable link to visited thread

22nd September 2011 added user redirect url selection
08th October Beta testing started for thread creation.
20th October Beta testing started for emailing.
21st October Beta testing complete Ver 3.0.0 uploaded
29th October minor fix added to cope with empty userid on thread creation
30th October Beta testing automatic redirection to spiders/bots IP
31st October New xml uploaded with automatic redirect to IP
25th November Minor fix for blank forumid fixed
26th November 2011 Fixed version check & create thread Off by default
17th December 2014 Version 3.1.0 uploaded, Hook changed extra logging and statistics added by Ozzy47 (Chris)
18th December 2014 Version 3.1.1 uploaded, prevented spiders being counted when mod turned off.
17th December 2014 Version 3.1.2 uploaded, due to rogue code from another mod
The Bad Bots list is now included in the product
Please prune out all those that you wish to be able to see your site (i suggest you definately prune out "DA" and "Custo" :

Support will now only be given to those who have this mod marked as INSTALLED

[tanzeelniazi]

Apache Synapse ESB Spider is a Bad or Good ? i think is not good because so many IP i see.
How to banned via Spider ban ?
I add this type

almaden
Apache Synapse ESB
Apache Synapse ESB Spider
Synapse
Anarchie
AhrefsBot
Artabus
ASPSeek

Useragent is

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Synapse)

Add spider in my banned list but still showing Apache spiders why ?

[Simon Lloyd]

Is that all that is in their useragent?

[Simon Lloyd]

You can block that entire string or try blocking this Synapse-HttpComponents-NIO

The Apache Synapse is an abused proxy, more ofetn than not it's used to check for vulnerabilities against different attacks like DDOS and sql injection.

[ozzy47]

TBH all you need to add is Synapse. I have only that in the block list, and it is successful at blocking all of them.

Remember, if you add it to the list, it will take as much time as you have set in vBoptions for them to disappear, from the online list, as you have set for the timeout.

So if your timeout is set to 15 min, and you add a bot, it will take at least that long before they no longer appear in who's online.

[tanzeelniazi]

i added like this m correct ??
if i am wrong how to add full string in spider list

[Gadget_Guy]

Why is the darn Baidu spider so hard to stop?

I have the mod installed, have had it running for weeks... but this darn spider keeps infiltrating the site slowing things down.

It is in my list.... but if you look at who's online... there they are....

(attached txt of my spider list)

(also... based on what you are seeing... should I be adding any of the others seen in the screen shot to the list? if so... what are the entries?)

Thanks,

D.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

Why is the darn Baidu spider so hard to stop?

I have the mod installed, have had it running for weeks... but this darn spider keeps infiltrating the site slowing things down.

It is in my list.... but if you look at who's online... there they are....

(attached txt of my spider list)


(also... based on what you are seeing... should I be adding any of the others seen in the screen shot to the list? if so... what are the entries?)

Thanks,

D.

It is a weird thing Ozzy was having on his site too, and I just assumed it was a v4 thing since I had no occurrences of Baidu at all on my boards, which were all 3.8s.

I bought a existing v4 though, and haven't seen a baidu since I installed this Mod. So I'm really clueless as to how they get through on you and Ozz.

[CAG CheechDogg]

The Baidu spider can take up to a couple if not few months to completely disappear and actually obey the no crawl rule when adding this mod or even blocking it through your robots.txt ... I have it blocked everywhere and it took maybe 3 days before I didn't see it again ... the best thing to do for me was also add a huge IP block to my htaccess file that completely blocks all of China and a couple other Asian countries from accessing my site ...

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

Why is the darn Baidu spider so hard to stop?

I have the mod installed, have had it running for weeks... but this darn spider keeps infiltrating the site slowing things down.

It is in my list.... but if you look at who's online... there they are....

(attached txt of my spider list)


(also... based on what you are seeing... should I be adding any of the others seen in the screen shot to the list? if so... what are the entries?)

Thanks,

D.

They are not slowing your site down and not actually getting anywhere, you are using Paul M's who has visited mod, both his mod and mine are working fine, his mod registers them at the time of call for page load as mine redirects them at the same time

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by tanzeelniazi

i added like this m correct ??
if i am wrong how to add full string in spider list
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a93z97i2b

That appears correct.