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ELI Forums => Getty Images Letter Forum => Topic started by: lucia on December 01, 2011, 10:31:45 AM
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Daniel--
Zbblock http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php will help block robo-spammers registering. It's pretty easy to use but I know some people are uncomfortable editing php or ftping to their hosts and I don't know you well enough to know where you sit on the continuum of dealing with software. If you need help ask me. (I know I'm new here, but I can still help on that.)
I recently installed zbblock at my blog precisely because the load from crawlers has been exploding. Oddly, in Oct/Nov I spent time trying to figure out how to auto-detect and bounce lots of these guys and created a side-blog containing about 3 posts discussing a few things. I was planning to discuss that more.
I think we might also need to figure out some way to help people bounce any nuisance bots that draw our sites bandwidth for their purposes. This includes things like picscout; web rumors suggest getty uses that for crawling.
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They are not rumors Getty Images purchased picscout a while back.
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Do you know if it's true that picscouts IP is associated with deny from bezeqint.net? I've added "deny bezeqint.net" to my .htaccess block for now. That might be over-inclusive, but I'll be looking for more.
Oddly, I'd been on a mission to block or bounce bandwidth, memory, cpu hogging crawlers in Oct/Nov. Even apart from the Getty issue it sounds like picscout falls in that category.
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Not sure, but I wouldn't say it's over inclusive, I have blocked every IP that originates in Israel.