former banned member revenge!

[Midohash]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

USER AGENT, not IP.

Find the user agent in online.php, options at bottom of page, "User Agent" make YES,

You have to do this while he is online to capture this information.

It will look something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

User Agent tells you what browser, operating system, etc the user or visitor has.

Thank you for this piece of invaluable information :up: ... I'll try doing that. I guess after getting such information is to include the whole example line in Ban Spiders By User Agent hack. Have I understand it right?

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Originally Posted by Midohash

Thank you for this piece of invaluable information :up: ... I'll try doing that. I guess after getting such information is to include the whole example line in Ban Spiders By User Agent hack. Have I understand it right?

sorry, forgot to ask about online.php ... is it in templates or mysql table?

[vijayninel]

Are you using the AE detector yet ?

[Midohash]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

Are you using the AE detector yet ?

I have never heard about it and don't know what is it for? ... would appreciate some more information please


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Originally Posted by vijayninel

Are you using the AE detector yet ?

I use a hack which informs me by a pm if 2 accounts are logging on through the same computer. I don't know if AE detector is an alternative name to this product or a different one?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Midohash

Thank you for this piece of invaluable information :up: ... I'll try doing that. I guess after getting such information is to include the whole example line in Ban Spiders By User Agent hack. Have I understand it right?

NO. many people have alot of the same stuff in their UA strings. You would be blocking access to 100s of millions of people if for example, you put just "Mozilla" or "Windows" or "Apple" in the ban list. You are looking for something that is unusual or unique in the string, for the one guy who is giving you the problems.

sorry, forgot to ask about online.php ... is it in templates or mysql table?

It's a page on your forum, online.php. It's accessed via the "quick links" dropdown, and the options are at the bottom of the page after it loads. "Who's Online."

[Midohash]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

NO. many people have alot of the same stuff in their UA strings. You would be blocking access to 100s of millions of people if for example, you put just "Mozilla" or "Windows" or "Apple" in the ban list. You are looking for something that is unusual or unique in the string, for the one guy who is giving you the problems.It's a page on your forum, online.php. It's accessed via the "quick links" dropdown, and the options are at the bottom of the page after it loads. "Who's Online."

Thanks a lot Max Taxable ... I got your point ... I hope I'll find something unique for him ... May I ask please, if I find something unique for him e.g. BOIE9 or ENXA, should I put the word as it is in Ban Spiders By User Agent or there is a special format?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Midohash

Thanks a lot Max Taxable ... I got your point ... I hope I'll find something unique for him ... May I ask please, if I find something unique for him e.g. BOIE9 or ENXA, should I put the word as it is in Ban Spiders By User Agent or there is a special format?

Yes, put just the unique part of the string in as a separate line in BSBUA.

[Midohash]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Yes, put just the unique part of the string in as a separate line in BSBUA.

Many thanks, I hope it will work with that evil guy!

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Midohash

Many thanks, I hope it will work with that evil guy!

He's lucky it's not my board he keeps coming back to.

[Midohash]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

He's lucky it's not my board he keeps coming back to.

I am pretty sure you will change your mind ... Is it possible to use the following in Ban Spiders By User Agent:

(Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0)

I mean to paste it exactly like that or I have to do some modification? ... Also can it blocks other innocent users?

Many thanks

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Midohash

Is it possible to use the following in Ban Spiders By User Agent:

(Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0)

I mean to paste it exactly like that or I have to do some modification? ... Also can it blocks other innocent users?

Many thanks

That would block hundreds of millions of innocent people. Don't do it.

If you have his user agent string, paste it here for me to look at if you don't mind?

And no, I would not change my mind. HE would be getting a new computer after he put the fire out.