Community Killers to Avoid at All Costs

[AnthonyCea]

One of the best is www.botscout.com if you need an API to plug into to stop spambots.

 

[0ptima]

Some interesting user agents I found today from spammers that signed up

• Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 95)
• (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95; MSIECrawler)
• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)

 

[AnthonyCea]

Those are all rotated by Xrumer spambot script automatically.

See this thread for more fake user agents used by spambot scripts.

 

[TNCclubman]

Plus chinas Baidu Spider, as the UserAgent block is quicker than the Country block due to the database size

Is there a way to block baidu from the xF admin cp? Its constantly on my site and I dont need the chinese visits for this particular site.

 

[AnthonyCea]

Baidu is one of the most aggressive crawlers on the web, block them by robots.txt if you don't want them scanning your content because they have a vast IP range.