Over the last several weeks, my forum has started getting more and more 'guest' visitors, which I assume are bots of some kind. When I look at "WHO IS ONLINE" I'll have a handful of registers users (including good bots like google and bing) and over a thousand 'guests' -- nearly all of whom are listed with:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
I've been looking at the 'bad bot' threadshere and how some are blocking via .htaccess, etc. but I'm not even sure where to start. How do I find out who these bots are? Some of the threads on this topic seem to include lists of 'bad bots' that get blocked at the .htaccess level, such as:
viewtopic.php?p=16018150#p16018150
Is it safe to assume the bots plaguing my site are on these lists, such that I should copy the same list/code to my .htaccess? Of is there some way to see a list of the bots on my site? Or a better solution altogether? Help!![:D]( "Very Happy")
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
I've been looking at the 'bad bot' threadshere and how some are blocking via .htaccess, etc. but I'm not even sure where to start. How do I find out who these bots are? Some of the threads on this topic seem to include lists of 'bad bots' that get blocked at the .htaccess level, such as:
viewtopic.php?p=16018150#p16018150
Is it safe to assume the bots plaguing my site are on these lists, such that I should copy the same list/code to my .htaccess? Of is there some way to see a list of the bots on my site? Or a better solution altogether? Help!
Statistics: Posted by CPTOM — Thu Apr 17, 2025 12:16 am