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#28397 How to block bad bots effectively?

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Latest post by on Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:17 CDT

skyfranky
Hi

I enabled these feature to block bad bots that consumes my server resources. there are only a few bots name in the list and there are so many bad bots. how can admin tools stop those not in the list?
https://www.screencast.com/t/jHDeU13ZOUg

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
It will only block what is in the list. If it wouldn't need the list why would we have a list there...? I don't understand your thinking. Also, I don't understand your question. The list is a text box. You may only see 10 lines at a time, but it holds MANY MORE entries. Just click inside it and scroll down. The current list is:

WebBandit
webbandit
Acunetix
binlar
BlackWidow
Bolt 0
Bot mailto:[email protected]
BOT for JCE
casper
checkprivacy
ChinaClaw
clshttp
cmsworldmap
comodo
Custo
Default Browser 0
diavol
DIIbot
DISCo
dotbot
Download Demon
eCatch
EirGrabber
EmailCollector
EmailSiphon
EmailWolf
Express WebPictures
extract
ExtractorPro
EyeNetIE
feedfinder
FHscan
FlashGet
flicky
GetRight
GetWeb!
Go-Ahead-Got-It
Go!Zilla
grab
GrabNet
Grafula
harvest
HMView
ia_archiver
Image Stripper
Image Sucker
InterGET
Internet Ninja
InternetSeer.com
jakarta
Java
JetCar
JOC Web Spider
kmccrew
larbin
LeechFTP
libwww
Mass Downloader
Maxthon$
microsoft.url
MIDown tool
miner
Mister PiX
NEWT
MSFrontPage
Navroad
NearSite
Net Vampire
NetAnts
NetSpider
NetZIP
nutch
Octopus
Offline Explorer
Offline Navigator
PageGrabber
Papa Foto
pavuk
pcBrowser
PeoplePal
planetwork
psbot
purebot
pycurl
RealDownload
ReGet
Rippers 0
SeaMonkey$
sitecheck.internetseer.com
SiteSnagger
skygrid
SmartDownload
sucker
SuperBot
SuperHTTP
Surfbot
tAkeOut
Teleport Pro
Toata dragostea mea pentru diavola
turnit
vikspider
VoidEYE
Web Image Collector
Web Sucker
WebAuto
WebCopier
WebFetch
WebGo IS
WebLeacher
WebReaper
WebSauger
Website eXtractor
Website Quester
WebStripper
WebWhacker
WebZIP
Widow
WWW-Mechanize
WWWOFFLE
Xaldon WebSpider
Yandex
Zeus
zmeu
CazoodleBot
discobot
ecxi
GT::WWW
heritrix
HTTP::Lite
HTTrack
ia_archiver
id-search
id-search.org
IDBot
Indy Library
IRLbot
ISC Systems iRc Search 2.1
LinksManager.com_bot
linkwalker
lwp-trivial
MFC_Tear_Sample
Microsoft URL Control
Missigua Locator
panscient.com
PECL::HTTP
PHPCrawl
PleaseCrawl
SBIder
Snoopy
Steeler
URI::Fetch
urllib
Web Sucker
webalta
WebCollage
Wells Search II
WEP Search
zermelo
ZyBorg
Indy Library
libwww-perl
Go!Zilla
TurnitinBot

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

skyfranky

my host gave me below code for blocking bad bots. I enabled feature in admintools to generate .htaccess to block bad bots alrady. should I add below code to .htaccess too?

Code:
#Block all bots except known crawlers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (bot|crawl|robot|spider)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(uptimerobot|bing|Google|msn|MSR|Twitter|Yandex) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
No. Kindly read our fine manual. I did not write it for myself :) What you need to do is enable the "Block access from specific user agents" feature. It does exactly the same (and even more!) than the code your host gave you. Of course that's pretty much what I told you in my previous reply ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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