vBulletin LTS

This mod can ONLY block those useragents that you have entered in the list, firstly get your user to go here http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ (via his phone) and find out what his useragent is then you go here http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/SimulateUserAgent.asp and paste his UA string in and test it to see if you get denied or not.

Something in his useragent string is in your list so it's not the mods fault as it's banning what you ask it to

It wont add prefixes as they are added when the forum loads, your actual url stays the same, a prefix is never added to them - have you ever seen a url like this http:http://www.mysite.com/showthread?t=[solved]12345 ???

You added your site monitoring service as a bad bot? bad move!, remember we're sending them a 301 which is a permanent redirect, if you don't see them back in a week check with them, you may ask for your url to crawled again.

Right, firstly, thanks they're now doing great , your "Track Guest Visits" mod will ALWAYS show the spiders but your native vBulletin WOL will not, the reason why the TGV mod picks them up is because they are actually accessing your site (so that mods doing it's job and recording them) but my mod prevents them from having their request completed i.e direct request for a url is a forum access but they are redirected permanently before the thread loads (so my mod is ALSO doing its job )

Hope that clears things up for you all.

@GreyGhost i'll PM you details of the beta

Ok, i've checked and i dont see any of these bots in your native vbulletin WOL, the other mods you have for statistics and total visitors...etc WILL log these as visiting because the bots are directly accessing a url, the logging is done before the url loads completely, my mod also bans them at this point so both mods are working

Just as a note, you're using create a thread, you can quickly get thousands of threads, it's better to use the output.txt logging

Note to all!:
If you have Simon in your ban list this will ban the following:
simon
SimonLloyd
Lloyd simon
thisisanincrediblylongsimonwordhere

Get the idea?, you dont need to add all those to your ban list, simply because the mod looks for the string "simon" (case doesn't matter) in the entire string, so, if you'd used this in your list:
Simon*\Lloyd
It would NOT ban:
Simon
Simon Lloyd
thisissimonlloydinastring
but it WOULD ban
Simon*\Lloyd-in(this.string)
thisstringSimon*\Lloydhere
....etc

Hope you all understand this better now and can get to removing duplicates from your list.

@tricksodave, you can delete the temp account for me now thanks, also if you read the above please prune your list.

If any of you have any trouble with editing your lists let me know and i'll help with anything you're stuck with

Blocking spiders is all about personal choice, do a little research and find out whether you want to cater for that country and whether they add value to your site!, when Deepnet Explorer are visiting go to who's online and at the bottom there's a dropdown box for "Show Useragent?" select Yes, then check out their useragent, you can enter any or all of the UA string, so if they actually do have Deepnet in the UA then you just enter that on its own line in the list

as a side note you don't need the full useragent string anymore to ban them, you can now enter any part of the string:
e.g
bai will result in baidu being banned just as will any string containing "bai"
Entering Mozilla will result in every useragent string containing that to be banned.

So, entering the full bot name but not useragent string will do, enter Baidu for that spider, dont enter Ya as something to ban as Yahoo will be banned just as Yandex will.

The output.txt is generated as bots found in your list attempt to call a forum or thread, there's no time lag and the file should be created straight away. If you have no cms then the file should be available at http://www.mysite.com/output.txt if forum is in a folder then something like http://www.mysite.com/forum/output.txt

Any issues post back and i'll deal with them for you

Try these:
http://www.forumpostersunion.com/index.php?t=1644
http://www.vbseo.com/f34/how-create-vbulletin-bot-scraper-trap-47378/index4.html

But to be honest it's nothing that a little googling or binging wont reslove

try this list works well for me

Baidu
almaden
Anarchie
ASPSeek
attach
autoemailspider
BackWeb
Bandit
BatchFTP
BlackWidow
Bot\mailto:email
Buddy
bumblebee
CherryPicker
ChinaClaw
CICC
Collector
Copier
Copyscape
Crescent
DIIbot
DISCo
DISCo\Pump
dotbot
Download\Demon
Download\Wonder
Downloader
Drip
DSurf15a
eCatch
EasyDL/2.99
EirGrabber
email
EmailCollector
EmailSiphon
EmailWolf
Express\WebPictures
ExtractorPro
EyeNetIE
FileHound
FlashGet
FrontPage
GetRight
GetSmart
GetWeb!
gigabaz
Go\!Zilla
Go!Zilla
Go-Ahead-Got-It
gotit
Grabber
GrabNet
Grafula
grub-client
HMView
HTTrack
httpdown
.*httrack.*
ia_archiver
Image\Stripper
Image\Sucker
Indy*Library
Indy\Library
InterGET
InternetLinkagent
Internet\Ninja
InternetSeer.com
Iria
JBH*agent
JetCar
JOC\Web\Spider
JustView
larbin
LeechFTP
LexiBot
lftp
Link*Sleuth
likse
//Link
LinkWalker
Mag-Net
Magnet
Mass\Downloader
Memo
Microsoft.URL
MIDown\tool
Mirror
Mister\PiX
Mozilla.*Indy
Mozilla.*NEWT
Mozilla*MSIECrawler
MS\FrontPage*
MSFrontPage
MSIECrawler
MSProxy
Navroad
NearSite
NetAnts
NetMechanic
NetSpider
Net\Vampire
NetZIP
NICErsPRO
Ninja
Nutch
Octopus
Offline\Explorer
Offline\Navigator
Openfind
PageGrabber
Papa\Foto
pavuk
pcBrowser
Ping
PingALink
Pockey
psbot
Pump
QRVA
RealDownload
Reaper
Recorder
ReGet
Scooter
Seeker
Siphon
sitecheck.internetseer.com
SiteSnagger
SlySearch
SmartDownload
Snake
sogou
Soso
SpaceBison
Spinn3r
sproose
Stripper
Sucker
SuperBot
SuperHTTP
Surfbot
Szukacz
tAkeOut
Teleport\Pro
URLSpiderPro
Vacuum
VoidEYE
vBSEO
Web\Image\Collector
Web\Sucker
WebAuto
[Ww]eb[Bb]andit
webcollage
WebCopier
Web\Downloader
WebEMailExtrac.*
WebFetch
WebGo\IS
WebHook
WebLeacher
WebMiner
WebMirror
WebReaper
WebSauger
Website
Website\eXtractor
Website\Quester
Webster
WebStripper
WebWhacker
WebZIP
Wget
Whacker
Widow
WWWOFFLE
x-Tractor
Xaldon\WebSpider
Xenu
Yandex
Yeti
YOUDAOBOT
Zeus.*Webster
Zeus

And with only the addition of, per line:

MSIE 1
MSIE 2
MSIE 3
MSIE 4
MSIE 5
MSIE 6

You end 99.9% of all spam bot registration attempts and cut garbage traffic even further.

Here's my entire ban list for this Mod:

baiduspider
beta.statsit.com
statsit
SiteIntel
Yandex
GomezAgent
FunWebProducts
MSIE 1
MSIE 2
MSIE 3
MSIE 4
MSIE 5
MSIE 6
w3m