Thanks , Is it compatible with 3.1.2HiFiKabin wrote:Unzip the file, upload it to the forum root (whereconfig.php
is) and go towww.yourforum.com/manage_bots.php
and let the file run.
Then deletemanage_bots.php
from the server as its work is done
Thanks , Is it compatible with 3.1.2HiFiKabin wrote:Unzip the file, upload it to the forum root (whereconfig.php
is) and go towww.yourforum.com/manage_bots.php
and let the file run.
Then deletemanage_bots.php
from the server as its work is done
This one isKhurramMunawar wrote:Thanks , Is it compatible with 3.1.2HiFiKabin wrote:Unzip the file, upload it to the forum root (whereconfig.php
is) and go towww.yourforum.com/manage_bots.php
and let the file run.
Then deletemanage_bots.php
from the server as its work is done
The previous one by Pony99CA is not compatible with 3.1.xvectra-mods wrote:This works removed user_webiste as no longer exist in the users table its now in profile fields table. Needs a lot of work this file its a bit messy, ive made it a little more messy haha
HiFiKabin wrote:This one isKhurramMunawar wrote:Thanks , Is it compatible with 3.1.2HiFiKabin wrote:Unzip the file, upload it to the forum root (whereconfig.php
is) and go towww.yourforum.com/manage_bots.php
and let the file run.
Then deletemanage_bots.php
from the server as its work is done
The previous one by Pony99CA is not compatible with 3.1.xvectra-mods wrote:This works removed user_webiste as no longer exist in the users table its now in profile fields table. Needs a lot of work this file its a bit messy, ive made it a little more messy haha
Those bots were already on the bot list, so it can't add them again.KhurramMunawar wrote: i have installed the bots. at the end i got the following report
Bot conflicts found: Ahrefs [Bot], Cuil [Bot], Ezooms [Bot], Seznam [Bot], Tweetmeme [Bot], Twitter [Bot], Yandex [Bot]
what to do now ??
thanks for your help.HiFiKabin wrote:Those bots were already on the bot list, so it can't add them again.KhurramMunawar wrote: i have installed the bots. at the end i got the following report
Bot conflicts found: Ahrefs [Bot], Cuil [Bot], Ezooms [Bot], Seznam [Bot], Tweetmeme [Bot], Twitter [Bot], Yandex [Bot]
what to do now ??
Have a look at your bot list in the ACP. I have 342 bots on mine. If yours is near that number, then its run OK and you can delete the file.
Read the original manage_bots post:KhurramMunawar wrote:how to use this file.HiFiKabin wrote:Thanks. That works perfectly
(I presume that Vectra-mods didn't remove the help from the file.)To install and use manage_bots, please read the comments at the top of the script.
Only thing i done was remove unwanted code to make it function again...Pony99CA wrote:Read the original manage_bots post:KhurramMunawar wrote:how to use this file.HiFiKabin wrote:Thanks. That works perfectly
(I presume that Vectra-mods didn't remove the help from the file.)To install and use manage_bots, please read the comments at the top of the script.
Steve
Here is a script that you place into root that will add a significant number of Bots.umarizal wrote:There is a package with all the bots shared here to be added at once?
Oh, on the blog of first post, I can not see because I don´t have permission, it seems that I need an invitation.
Thank You!
Thank you very much. It is safe?advocatus wrote:Here is a script that you place into root that will add a significant number of Bots.umarizal wrote:There is a package with all the bots shared here to be added at once?
Oh, on the blog of first post, I can not see because I don´t have permission, it seems that I need an invitation.
Thank You!
Perfectly safeumarizal wrote:Thank you very much. It is safe?advocatus wrote:Here is a script that you place into root that will add a significant number of Bots.umarizal wrote:There is a package with all the bots shared here to be added at once?
Oh, on the blog of first post, I can not see because I don´t have permission, it seems that I need an invitation.
Thank You!
Can I add this to the bot list then ban the user?Around the mid 1990s, we (Microsoft) shipped an ActiveX control called the Internet Transfer Control, which allowed developers to write programs to transfer files with FTP or HTTP.
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Although this isn't documented in MSDN, the control always set the user-agent to "Microsoft URL Control" plus a version number. It was possible to change that, but it was quite a pain, so few did.
This actually caused some problems when people upgraded to the .NET Framework because the replacement API actually required a user-agent string, and some customers coudln't figure out what to put there. (Apparently some opted for the space character. Has anyone seen that in the real world?)
Of course there are plenty of old machines (and old software) still around. It is perfectly possible that a legitimate program is somehow doing this, but most of the traffic I see on the web suggests that the typical program that does this is an e-mail-address-stealing crawler. I'd guess that someone wrote one of these once upon a time and that lots of other people have simply copied and tweaked it since then.
You cannot block this with robots.txt; the code is older than the robots.txt specification, so the programmer would actually have to write extra code to read, parse, and respect robots.txt. That seems very, very unlikely.
On the other hand, if you do go to extra trouble to block the user-agent, it won't be completely trivial for them to update their programs to work around it. A real programmer can do it, of course, but a script kiddie might be stymied. Like I said, we didn't make it easy to do, and there is no support for this now.
Hope that helps. Sorry to hear that someone is doing this to you.