Cyveillance fell into my trap!

bloodjelly · 07-17-2004, 01:18 PM

I just opened up a website about a week ago (http://www.moodsites.com) and already Cyveillance has accessed it and ignored my robots.txt file. I have a bot trap on the front page (a small link to a page that's excluded in robots.txt) and they went right to it. I've decided to ban them from the site for wasting my bandwidth and time. Anyone else notice these guys in their logs? Here's a good thread with some .htaccess code explaining how to institute the ban:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1976.htm

and this was the IP address they used to access my site: 63.148.99.234

grrrr....fighting back!

vinyl-junkie · 07-17-2004, 02:36 PM

I have an IP close to that in my web stats:

63.148.99.239

07-17-2004, 01:18 PM	#1
bloodjelly Purple Mole Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 106	Cyveillance fell into my trap! I just opened up a website about a week ago (http://www.moodsites.com) and already Cyveillance has accessed it and ignored my robots.txt file. I have a bot trap on the front page (a small link to a page that's excluded in robots.txt) and they went right to it. I've decided to ban them from the site for wasting my bandwidth and time. Anyone else notice these guys in their logs? Here's a good thread with some .htaccess code explaining how to institute the ban: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1976.htm and this was the IP address they used to access my site: 63.148.99.234 grrrr....fighting back! __________________ Foundmyself.com artist community, art galleries

07-17-2004, 02:36 PM	#2
vinyl-junkie Purple Mole Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 694	I have an IP close to that in my web stats: 63.148.99.239