hitbot cheater question
 

Someone's hitbotting my site.
I'm not so stupid that I couldn't find out the IP's, but when I do, is it any good actually?

Can I prevent that/those IP's accessing my site?

Someone wanna help me out here?

Btw, this is the stupid kind of cheating. It does the hitbotter no good, but it hurts my productivity.

Hi Mika,

There are several ways to block IP's from your server. It depends
on what type of hosting you have, the access you have, etc, etc.

It sounds like you got hit by a not too smart hitbotter which is good that makes it a bit easier. Drop me a mail at [email protected] and give me some info about your host.

Things like do you have access to your apache config, do you have ssh access, is it shared hosting, can you use .htaccess
files, is it win or unix does it support perl or php?

I'll help you out one way or another :D

DynaMite

hitbots are getting out of hand... won't someone save us!?

;-)

Haa it was you kman.
Oh, but I'm nothing so you wouldn't probably even bother

if i had the capabilities to hitbot, id be very tempted, but i do not have the capabilities... in fact, my last post was me setting up my friends who we had a long lunch meeting for a program that will stop all hitbotting... similar to proxyguard, but it wont cost you anything =-)

*Dro0oOOooL*

Do tell!

Tis true... after having lunch with kman yesterday and discussing the idea, myself and another party have come up with a very novel idea to prevent click fraud. The software is fairly easy to write - we're just trying to figure out how to implement it for TGPers. We're leaning more towards a service as opposed to a script.

I posted source on http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/ enjoy
(needs little touch, to be perfect).
Demo on the board below post

everyone can, there's even a shareware hitbot that sells for something like $25 :(

i already have a cheat detecting sofware and testing it right now. it will be out soon...