tenants
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That's old school, user_agent is just a header (easily spoofed), they use quite a variation of user agents now... most come through faking there self as Mozilla:
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/harvester_useragents.php?dt=7
Out of the 5,000 bots I just checked via my access logs, none used the user_agent xpymep.exe
Most bots I detected have user agents like:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5"
(these were confirmed bots ... making their selves appear as browsers)
<< Obviously don't ban these, you might find it reduces your bots... but you exclude quite a few humans too
but it cant do any harm to give the other ones ago.
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/harvester_useragents.php?dt=7
Out of the 5,000 bots I just checked via my access logs, none used the user_agent xpymep.exe
Most bots I detected have user agents like:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5"
(these were confirmed bots ... making their selves appear as browsers)
<< Obviously don't ban these, you might find it reduces your bots... but you exclude quite a few humans too
but it cant do any harm to give the other ones ago.