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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; iOpus-Web-Automation; .NET CLR 2.0.50727
How do i block the anyone with iOpus-Web-Automation in their user agent string?
My current htaccess is below (with some url related rules removed:
<Files ~ "^.*$">
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=ban
## Crawlers/IP bans
#
#Crawlers By Country
#china
deny from 202.115.128.0/20
#korea
deny from 211.232.0.0/15
#dom republic
#romania
deny from 89.120.0.0/14
#brazil
deny from 200.163.0.0/16
#nigeria
deny from 41.204.224.0/19#Others
#twiceler, performance systems international
deny from 38.0.0.0/8
#BT crawler
deny from 86.138.53.15
#dynamic
deny from 81.6.218.37
#opal telecom
deny from 89.242.88.194
#bethere
deny from 87.194.67.30
#eclerx
deny from 62.197.4.0/24
deny from 41.211.0.0/19
deny from 63.238.0.0/16
#wolfenet
deny from 207.178.0.0/18
#UAE Crawler
deny from 195.229.242.154
#USA Crawler
deny from 72.232.81.78
#Swiss Crawler
deny from 80.254.74.3
#Some Argie crawler at 5am
deny from 200.51.41.0/24
#bt crawler
deny from 81.148.154.110
#Loads of single page viewing search
deny from 205.212.0.0/16
deny from 128.241.0.0/16
deny from 209.59.0.0/16
deny from 168.143.0.0/16
deny from 207.195.0.0/16
deny from 207.67.128.0/17
deny from 130.94.0.0/16
deny from 198.170.0.0/15
deny from 198.172.0.0/15
deny from 147.203.0.0/16
</Files>
<Files ~ "^robots\.txt$¦^favicon\.ico$">
allow from all
</Files>
RewriteEngine on
#current rules removed from post
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
Thanks
Files ~ "^.*$">
SetEnvIf User-Agent "Opus-Web-Automation" keep_out
order allow,deny
allow from all
IN addition, and in a line prior to youur closing </Files>
insert:
deny from env=keep_out
I've added that as you suggested, hopefully that will stop them.
I had some user agent blocks before but I think i had the lines in the wrong order or something as it was causing problems with some IE users.
