+ Blocked IPS and Agents

This page is for maintaining a list of IPs that are problematic for Indymedia servers. Typical examples include corporate media monitoring services like ewatch and webclippings, or computers that are acting suspicious (spam scripts, etc.) Changes to this list should be accompanied by a note to the imc-sysadmin list.

ewatch spiders

• 199.230.29.72 - 81
• 199.230.29.96 - 103

webclipping spiders

Here are some entries from a httpd.conf

# User-Agents with no privileges (mostly spambots/spybots/offline downloaders that ignore robots.txt)

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} "^63\.148\.99\.2(2[4-9]|[3-4][0-9]|5[0-5])$" [OR] # Cyveillance spybot
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^12\.148\.196\.(12[8-9]|1[3-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$ [OR] # NameProtect spybot
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^12\.148\.209\.(19[2-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$ [OR] # NameProtect spybot
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^64\.140\.49\.6([6-9])$ [OR] # Turnitin spybot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} iaea\.org [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^[A-Z]+$ [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} anarchie [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Atomz [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} cherry.?picker [NC,OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "compatible ; MSIE 6.0" [OR] # spambot (note extra space before semicolon)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} crescent [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^DA \d\.\d+" [OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "DTS Agent" [OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^Download" [OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EasyDL/\d\.\d+ [OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} e?mail.?(collector|magnet|reaper|siphon|sweeper|harvest|collect|wolf) [NC,OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} express [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} extractor [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Fetch API Request" [OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FlickBot [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FrontPage [OR] # stupid user trying to edit site
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} getright [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} go.?zilla [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "efp@gmx\.net" [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} grabber [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} imagefetch [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Indy Library" [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^Internet Explore" [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^IE\ \d\.\d\ Compatible.*Browser$ [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "LINKS ARoMATIZED" [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Microsoft URL Control" [OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "mister pix" [NC,OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^Mozilla/4.0$" [OR] # dumb bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^Mozilla/\?\?$" [OR] # formmail attacker
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSIECrawler [OR] # IE\x92s "make available offline" mode
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NG [OR] # unknown bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} offline [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} net.?(ants|mechanic|spider|vampire|zip) [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} nicerspro [NC,OR] # spambot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ninja [NC,OR] # Download Ninja OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NPBot [OR] # NameProtect spybot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PersonaPilot [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} snagger [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sqworm [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SurveyBot [OR] # rude bot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} tele(port|soft) [NC,OR] # OD
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} TurnitinBot [OR] # Turnitin spybot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} web.?(auto|bandit|collector|copier|devil|downloader|fetch|hook|mole|miner|mirror|reaper|sauger|sucker|site|snake|stripper|weasel|zip) [NC,OR] # ODs
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} vayala [OR] # dumb bot, doesn't know how to follow links, generates lots of 404s
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zeus [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Robots standard for those that respect it: http://www.robotstxt.org

started: -- MetaMatrix - 22 Mar 2003