Bad bot blocking?

[tortus32]

Does anyone know how to block bad bots?

Thanks,

Bill

[swedguy]

By IP or coming from a certain domain?

[tortus32]

Agent name.

I found this agent name as one of the latest visitors: EirGrabber
So I did a google search for "EirGrabber" and it turns out it's a bad bot.
Is that right?

Now when I go and check my latest visitor stats, I can't find it anymore.

Bill

[swedguy]

Put this in your .htaccess. Notice that there's no OR in the last RewriteCond
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*eirgrabber [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*another_bad_bot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*third_bad_bot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

But I wouldn't really sweat over it :)

[tortus32]

Thanks!

Bill