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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
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 Download Now
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That is what the spiders.txt file I attached is.
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Simon or Lloyd or Crawl or Spider.....etc The same goes for: Lloyd Crawl or Everything or Simon Lloyd....etc (case isnt important) What the mod does is look for the string you entered, so if you want to ban the spider i mentioned above just Simon will do it, howevere lets say you have a friendly bot called Simon Lloyd Crawled Everything Everywherespider then to ban the first bot and allow the other you'd need to enter a string that is unique to the first one so in this case i could be: Simon Lloyd Crawl Everything This way it wont pick up the "Crawl" in the friendly bots name as its looking for the exact string you entered. Hope that helps. |
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I need it as asked for, the reason for this is to check for machine charaters and/or leading/trailing spaces, hard returns.....etc
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This COULD be the issue I have with mine then. When you look at my txt file you will see that I tried putting in multiple variations. That could be negating the effectiveness. Maybe as part of the mod could be an updated list that we can copy/paste so that people like me who are clueless don't do the wrong thing. Keeping in mind that we would want the "good" spiders to get through like google, bing, and the legit ones that are important to SEO, Adsense, and other things like that. I hope you and Ozzy are disscusing the hook thing as well... he seemed to think that may be important with my 4.2.2 site. I will say that when I had this mod in place for my 3.8.x site it worked perfectly and I didn't get hit hard till I upgraded to 4.2.2 I saw my server loads go way up.... D. |
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There is already a list included and many throughout this thread, i've also explained the above before. I wouldn't update the list of spiders to ban as i've said probably over a dozen times it's a personal thing on what or who you ban.
If you want to pm me access as i've said before i'll take a look. |
#657
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Here you go.
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#658
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Right, i've been through your list, i wont comment on the bots you are banning as thats your preference, what i ahve done is ordered the list, checked for anything that shouldn't be there and removed some bots as they will be taken care of by other entries you have.
What i will say is if you are NOT using Paul Ms "Who has visited" mod and you are still seeing any of the bots on your list appear in WOL then you need to check that spiders UserAgent to see if the name or text you have in your list actually appears in the UA. |
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Do you mean this one:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232636 Then, yes... I am using it. D. |
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In regards to your comment about "my list".... I have no idea to be honest. Those I put in there based on what I was seeing in my WOL and putting things in there to try and block them. I am sure I was way off base and incorrect in doing so. So.... in light of this... if you want to provide a "proper" list... I am happy to take your guidance. I don't know the first thing about any of this stuff and am looking to experts like yourself to assist. D. |
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