.htaccess ban list

help please

[philipvs]

In the past here was created topic [webmasterworld.com...]

Tell please how you see what bots (like: ^EmailSiphon, ^Zeus.*Webster etc.) visit your site?
Where I can find info about bots that visit my site, so I can ban them?
Sorry for my bad English.
Thank you.

[jdMorgan]

Generally, your host provides server access log files, which you can access with HTTP or through FTP, to see every request that your server receives.

The entries look like this:

72.30.177.225 - - [19/Apr/2007:03:13:21 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 6553 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"

In this case, the request was from Yahoo's search engine spider, named "Slurp". The IP address belongs to Intomi, a company that Yahoo purchased several years ago.

Jim