Title: Bad bots
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Bad bots

 *  Resolved [sroskylos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sroskylo1/)
 * (@sroskylo1)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-bots/)
 * I get Unknown robot (identified by ‘bot’ followed by a space or one of the following
   characters _+:,.;/\-) 9,721+22
 * How i can block the bad bots in Wordfence?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-bots/#post-7360129)
 * Hi,
 * Currently, there is not a way to specifically block a bot, but you can block 
   them by IP. When you see a visitor you want to block on Live Traffic, block it
   and then go to blocked IP’s to permanently block.
 * Hope that helps,
    Brian

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