Blocking Bad Bots with .htaccess

[Bladewire]

Is the best way to go about it with rewrites?

If so, can anyone post a solid .htaccess snippet blocking the bots?

Thank you

[Bladewire]

BUMP! for blocking bad bots

[Bladewire]

Bad Boy Bot BUMP!

[Jarmusch]

User-agent: GoogleBot
Disallow: /

[Barry-xlovecam]

I just add them as I find them. The are other ways to do this also.

This is a good site for various .htaccess code http://www.askapache.com/

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
########################################
##################################


RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Gigabot"
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]