Watch Out For Bots!

[AllanC]

We need to watch out for bots. (robot programs posing as users.)

There is many bots now days and they enter all types of web and other servers including blogs and forums. Here is a list that is only 1 week old of known bots that have wondered onto my apache web servers:

order allow,deny
deny from 12.35.110.235
deny from 58.58.149.2
deny from 61.244.235.34
deny from 64.120.31.4
deny from 65.9.251.54
deny from 67.202.123.84
deny from 69.147.248.173
deny from 69.147.248.252
deny from 74.206.98.195
deny from 87.118.124.12
deny from 89.222.171.3
deny from 124.121.93.193
deny from 124.121.99.105
deny from 125.235.241.132
deny from 173.234.19.66
deny from 173.234.13.70
deny from 173.234.18.123
deny from 173.234.19.123
deny from 173.234.19.215
deny from 173.234.28.29
deny from 173.234.38.161
deny from 173.234.38.199
deny from 173.234.87.78
deny from 173.234.87.191
deny from 173.234.177.77
deny from 173.246.36.17
deny from 174.34.170.232
deny from 178.236.241.101
deny from 184.82.111.108
deny from 187.6.85.3
deny from 189.28.0.190
deny from 200.195.132.27
deny from 201.20.18.165
deny from 201.45.156.242
deny from 201.57.234.129
deny from 207.58.167.118
deny from 210.212.218.4
deny from 213.0.89.8
deny from 216.213.45.31
deny from 216.213.45.217
allow from all

Those ip addresses all run bot scripts. Some may have a real user too, but most just run bot scrips and the mail goal is to spread spam on your sites.

Allan

[TEddy]

So how do you keep them off your site?