Blocking Bad Bots & HTACCESS Optimization

Hammad101 · 11-07-2010, 04:09 AM

Hello,

My Pastebin for .HTACCESS

http://pastebin.com/edHRNhPz

If you can offer any tips on improvements..

but the main reason: I cannot get the bots to stop showing up.

Esp the first one in the list.

I need to block these two specifically

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

&

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090402 Firefox/3.6a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I've tried using various combo but unsuccessful.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

bathory · 11-07-2010, 05:18 PM

Hi,

How do you know they are bots? To me they look like legitimate firefox User-agent strings.

Regards

Hammad101 · 11-08-2010, 01:28 AM

They're post Warez Post Bots.

There are programs called Multi-Posters.

Both of them belong to 1) A Cracked Program used by 10s of thousands | 2) Another free program used by millions

bathory · 11-08-2010, 02:00 AM

Ok, but how can you distinguish them from normal firefox sessions? You can't use these strings in .htaccess because you risk to block also legitimate clients using firefox.
If they come from specific IPs, you can block them using their IPs in the regex'es in .htaccess.

Hammad101 · 11-08-2010, 02:06 AM

I daily ban over 10 bots. they're too much trouble.

Take a look a this image and tell me this is a coincidence

http://screensnapr.com/u/rsoarb.png

I want to block these two specific strings

bathory · 11-08-2010, 02:21 AM

Are you serving warez? If so, I'm afraid but I can't help.