Title: Bot Magnet
Last modified: December 14, 2017

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# Bot Magnet

 *  [worldpremier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worldpremier/)
 * (@worldpremier)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-magnet/)
 * Can anyone tell me how to stop spamming bots?
 * I have 3 wordpress websites. Only one of them is getting bombed by bots posting
   on my site. I am using the Thrive theme which is an online school that has groups.
   The settings only allow instructors to create groups, but somehow people are 
   getting around that and creating spammy groups.
 * I am using the following plugins to stop this. It slows it down, but doesn’t 
   stop it: Ban Hammer, Stop Bad Bots, Loginizer Security, Sucuri Security.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbot-magnet%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-magnet/#post-9782239)
 * Hi,
 * Stop bad bots is one plugin created to **block spiders.**
    The plugin can block
   more than 2.500 spiders and block them **based in their User Agent.** Sorry, 
   but looks like you have another kind of problem.
 * Cheers,
    Bill StopBadBots developer
 *  [chemicloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chemicloud/)
 * (@chemicloud)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-magnet/#post-9782271)
 * Hello,
 * The key here is to identify the bots that are intensely crawling your website
   and to block them.
 * Access the cPanel for your account and check on the RAW access logs for your 
   website. Download the log files then search for the word ‘Bot’.
 * Below is a useful code block you can insert into .htaccess file for blocking 
   a
    lot of the known bad bots and site rippers currently out there:
 *     ```
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(SemrushBot|Ahrefs|Baidu|BlogScope|Butterfly|DCPbot|discoverybot|domain|Ezooms|ImageSearcherFree).*$ [NC,OR]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(ips-agent|BLEXBot|MegaIndex.ru|linkdex|MJ12|Netcraft|NextGenSearchBot|SISTRIX|Sogou|soso|TweetmemeBot|Unwind|Yandex).*$ [NC]
       RewriteRule ^/?.*$ "http://127.0.0.1" [R,L]
       ```
   
 * Bots that are listed above will all receive a 403 Forbidden error when trying
   to access your site.
 * Another way to handle malicious traffic is to enable a CDN for your website.
 * Hope this information will help.
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-magnet/#post-9784229)
 * > but somehow people are getting around that and creating spammy groups
 * I would force all users to reset their passwords, make sure all are logged out(
   salts) and add some security plugins.
 * Then, add a post about never walking away from your computer or device without
   locking it down (or be banned :-).
 * Sometimes we assume hacks, when, it could well be human interaction (with a device
   left accessible by humans).

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 * [bots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bots/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bot-magnet/#post-9784229)
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