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EasyWebPromotion bot

How would I block this spider?

         

robjones

1:29 pm on Feb 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,
I found this in my logfiles:

2003-02-09 05:21:36 64.69.66.176 - 217.114.161.44 80 GET /index.html - 200 EasyWebPromotion1.0:+(http://www.easywebpromotion.com/bot.html)

It seemed to be very aggressive, downloading the file 10 times in 5 seconds, I want to block it but there is no information on their website about if they obey the robots.txt standard or not.
Does anyone know if using the robots.txt file will block it?
Thanks

FineWare

2:30 pm on Feb 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



It won't respect robots.txt. EasyWebPromotion appears to be a logspam bot. It inserts it's "ad" in the referrer field. Here are the variations I've received so far:

24.71.12.65 - [zwnet.com...]
64.69.66.176 - [zwnet.com...]
24.71.12.65 - [easywebpromotion.com...]
24.71.12.65 - [123hosting.com...]

Best way to block is by .htaccess and/or keying on the agent "EasyWebPromotion".

robjones

2:54 pm on Feb 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi FineWare,
Thanks for the info, I'm pretty new to this sort of thing, so I don't know how I go about ' keying on the agent "EasyWebPromotion".'
I'm looking up .htaccess info as I speak :)