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

[oddball118]

Works as advertised. Thanks!

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I banned them at the server level. Not catering to the Chinese or Asian market and never will cater to the Chinese or Asian market so don't need them to index my site.

It's been a long time since i've seen your name on a post Wayne, nice to see you again

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Boofo

How did you do it at the server level?

If you use cPanel you can use the IP deny manager and ban a whole block of IP's (as well as single ones)

[Boofo]

I thought he was talking of banning spiders themselves and not IPs.

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I banned them at the server level. Not catering to the Chinese or Asian market and never will cater to the Chinese or Asian market so don't need them to index my site.

By the way Wayne, a long while ago i joined vbCodex, then it went offline for a long while and when it came back up (as it is now) there's no members, posts and i'm not registered anymore - what's happening or do you have another vb coding related site?

[Conehead555]

Puts this over the header (4.1.4):

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(917) : eval()'d code on line 39

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/functions.php(7115) : eval()'d code on line 58

[bosanci28]

i have installed this mod,but can someone post a screen how or what are the right setting for this mod?

i have this spider that is filling the online page with:

119.63.196.xx and a lot of numbers to the end ,i this like other people talk in the forum,
is the " Baidu " spider...

119.63.196.57
119.63.196.45
119.63.196.14
119.63.196.13
119.63.196.40
119.63.196.79
119.63.196.76
119.63.196.49
119.63.196.102	
119.63.196.114	
119.63.196.47	
119.63.196.121	
119.63.196.116	
119.63.196.27

how to stop this...


thank you,

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Conehead555

Puts this over the header (4.1.4):

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(917) : eval()'d code on line 39

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/functions.php(7115) : eval()'d code on line 58

Thats because you turned the mod on without selecting anything to ban!!!!!!! see previous posts.

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by bosanci28

i have installed this mod,but can someone post a screen how or what are the right setting for this mod?

i have this spider that is filling the online page with:

119.63.196.xx and a lot of numbers to the end ,i this like other people talk in the forum,
is the " Baidu " spider...

119.63.196.57
119.63.196.45
119.63.196.14
119.63.196.13
119.63.196.40
119.63.196.79
119.63.196.76
119.63.196.49
119.63.196.102	
119.63.196.114	
119.63.196.47	
119.63.196.121	
119.63.196.116	
119.63.196.27

how to stop this...


thank you,

Simply put Baidu in the box for banning bots

[bosanci28]

like this:?
see pic:

thanks