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abuse from bots with no user agent string

Posted: 05 May 2013, 11:06
by Brewster
Anyone got any experience with dealing with aggressive bots with no user agent string?

I run a wordpress blog that has had an unknown robot use up 9.03 MB of bandwidth in 46,971 hits. I'm guessing that a bot that doesnt have a user agent string isn't likely to check for a robots.txt, so is there a way of detecting and blocking this with either csf or mod security?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
JOe

Re: abuse from bots with no user agent string

Posted: 06 May 2013, 05:02
by Sergio
Mod_Security will do the job, have you tried to use ASL rules?

Sergio