larbin_2.6.3 [e-mail]

Is this a real spider bot?

[Riamus]

I recently got this in my logs:

User-Agent: larbin_2.6.3 [e-mail]
IP: 64.5.245.10

I've searched google for information and I see many different "e-mail addresses" listed in the UA's. It appearently is being seen all over the place... so, by that it seems like a spider bot. But, I can't find any real information about it. Is it really a spider bot? Or is it a spam bot or something?

[wilderness]

Most folks have anything that begins with larbin denied.

Here's some old threads:

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[Riamus]

What's the best way to ban only Larbin?

Here's another UA:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Larbin/2.6.3 [e-mail]

[encyclo]

If you want to ban anything called "larbin" in the user agent string, try something like this (untested):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} larbin [NC]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F]

[wilderness]

What's the best way to ban only Larbin?

Message #11 in this thread, offers a variety of links.
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