It absolutely is not from Google itself, as Google would show up as the Google [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, or Google Adsense, and it would come up as a bot, not as a guest. You're being scraped by bad bots.foxiedog wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:41 pmcan anyone shed any light on whether or not it is actually Google itself or some other user ?
thanks for the reply,[Dimetrodon] wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:27 pmEdit: As a temporary measure, I would go to my ACP > Users and Groups > Group Permissions > Guests > Post > Can download files; and setting that permission to No to block them from eating through your server's resources trying to download every attachment. I would probably consider doing the same for bots as well in case the person behind this attempts to impersonate a legitimate bot.foxiedog wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:41 pmcan anyone shed any light on whether or not it is actually Google itself or some other user ?
Thanks, i have a look at that,HiFiKabin wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:22 am Not totally failsafe but I use the Bad Bot Blocking .htaccess code by Jeff Starr. Its available on his site and I have a download with it added it to the default pbpBB .htaccess file to make things easier
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Then they cannot download the images. While they can try, and it would still come up as "downloading image," they're really looking at a "not authorized" page.foxiedog wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:13 amhow they can still download the images if permissions are set to never has got me baffled ?
There are a few regular expressions where the dot is used as if it was meant literally, but it actually is interpreted (as "any character") instead of escaped (as "dot").
im getting the same issue today, Bad Bot Blocking fix this issue, thanks.Thanks, i have a look at that,Not totally failsafe but I use the Bad Bot Blocking .htaccess code by Jeff Starr. Its available on his site and I have a download with it added it to the default pbpBB .htaccess file to make things easier youtube apk
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There is a new version currently in BETA which should address these issues.AmigoJack wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:48 pmThere are a few regular expressions where the dot is used as if it was meant literally, but it actually is interpreted (as "any character") instead of escaped (as "dot").