[OT] Psychelone and other bad bots

[FlexibleLearning at aol.com]

Stopping bad bots raiding your website has become an issue. Bad bots ignore  
your robots.txt rules, can greatly increase your bandwidth usage, throw  your 
stats into confusion and often harvest email addresses. By upload an  
.htaccess file with the following contents you can stop named bots from  accessing 
your website. Add further names if required. Note: 208.66.195.0-28  refers to the 
Moscow-based Psychelone agent that has recently appeared and that  does not 
always disclose its identity...


SetEnvIfNoCase User-agent "Arellis" spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase  User-agent "Indy Library" spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase User-agent "psycheclone"  spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase User-agent "Xenu_Link_Sleuth"  spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase User-agent "Zeus_" spammer=yes
<Limit GET  POST PUT>  
Order allow,deny
deny from  env=spammer
deny from 208.66.195.0/28
allow from  all
</limit>
 
 
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