Deny Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS) via .htacces

[mcneely]

A bandwidth burner, UA; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS) scouring my search index, looking for #*$!, using proxied ip's.

I can't deny every single ip address/range, so I thought to write in a deny blocking the UA.

Any ideas on how I can do this?

[jdMorgan]

Here are several previous threads [google.com] to get you started.

Jim

[mcneely]

Thanks

I searched Webmasterworld using various terms and nothing came up on the subject .. I didn't think to search Google because I was always under the impression that Webmasterworld didn't like GoogleBot much.

Now that I know that Google is indexing Webmasterworld, I'll look there for the answers to my questions.

Cheers

[mcneely]

As an aside;

These links in Google are pointing me to things I already know, incidently.

I saw a post in here somewhere, back in 2006, showing the correct way to write the blocking of mozilla/4.0 .. I'll look for it here ..

I'll start there and then try to incorporate the (compatible; ICS) into the write.

[jdMorgan]

Just be aware that you'll need to escape those parentheses, since they are regex operators, and literal periods and the spaces as well... e.g. ^Mozilla/4\.0\ \(compatible;\ ICS\)$

Jim