[JaxPM] wget, etc...

[JONES, WILLIAM C]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "JONES, WILLIAM C" <wcjones at exchange.fccj.org> wrote -

Thx for reminding me about wget.

I've set mod_rewrite to disallow that bot...  I know I know - there are SO
many others...

(Plus you could change the finger-print of wget by recompiling...)


But, what I've done will stop a LOT of script kiddies...

Sx  :]


PS:  The code, if interested -

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteLog /var/log/mod_rewrite.log
  RewriteLogLevel 0
 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.+$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon            [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf              [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro           [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.*NEWT          [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Crescent               [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^CherryPicker           [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^[Ww]get                [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^[Ww]eb[Bb]andit        [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebEMailExtrac.*       [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NICErsPRO              [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Telesoft               [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus.*Webster          [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Microsoft.URL          [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/3.Mozilla/2.01 [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailCollector
  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://insecurity.org/nospam.html
</IfModule>

>From the recent WebTechniques.com Privacy issue...

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