I was looking at my statistics this morning and discovered that my “data transfered” yesterday was significantly higher than almost any other day I can remember. I was a little suspicious of this so I looked a little closer. It turns out that the majority of the hits came from 4 IPs. Also, the most used User Agent yesterday was called “Yeti”. I looked Yeti up and find that it is a Korean search bot.
I’m not sure why a bot like this is wasting my bandwidth and I’m pretty sure that I don’t get many readers from Korea so, until further notice, “Yeti” and it’s IPs are being banned. I went looking for the best way to block an evil bot and found my favorite on the Wordpress forums. Here’s my code:
# Deny Evil Bots
SetEnvIf User-Agent "Yeti" bad_bot
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "222\.231\.2[01]\.[0-9]+" bad_bot
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_botTechnorati Tags: blocking, bot, htaccess, spam, yeti
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You’re 100% right – this spambot hacked into my website, and messed around with pages. Thanks for the advice on how to block it – duly noted.