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Old 18-03-2025, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse View Post
Bot's roam forums at frequent intervals to keep the search engine results updated. I moderate on a different astro forum. In my portfolio area, I can see logs that record when the bots visit my sub forum. It's quite frequent, Google/ Microsoft Bots are most frequent.

Joe

But this looks like a DOS attack - 1000s of bots.
A good firewall will allow the Admin to block certain types of IP addresses.
The main culprits may have parts of their IP addresses in common e.g.
all from Russia or China etc.
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