Title: Found Malicious User Agent
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Found Malicious User Agent

 *  Resolved [Eclipses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myerrorsandmysolutions/)
 * (@myerrorsandmysolutions)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/)
 * Hi,
    are you sure that Python-urllib/2.7 isn’t a search engine spider? I received
   more block e-mail that try to access to my robot.txt page like this:
 * TYPE: Found Malicious User Agent
    DETECTED ATTACK VALUE: Python-urllib/2.7 ACTION:
   Blocked LOGTIME: 2013-05-03 01:24:14 FROM IP: [http://whois.domaintools.com/144.76.62.77](http://whois.domaintools.com/144.76.62.77)
   URI: [http://myerrorsandmysolutions.com/robots.txt](http://myerrorsandmysolutions.com/robots.txt)
   METHOD: GET USERAGENT: Python-urllib/2.7 REFERRER: N/A
 * Let me know
    Thank you Eclipses
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 *  [cherylcope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cherylcope/)
 * (@cherylcope)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718881)
 * I would like to know the answer to this too!!
 *  [Larry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tippy/)
 * (@tippy)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718886)
 * I’ve got something similar:
 * TYPE: Found Malicious User Agent
    DETECTED ATTACK VALUE: Python-urllib/2.5 ACTION:
   Blocked LOGTIME: 2013-08-02 08:50:42
 * Need some answers. Google is no help. All of a sudden I’m getting this, a couple
   yesterday and 3 today. My site is only 2 months old. One of them had FROM IP:
   [http://whois.domaintools.com/208.66.65.5](http://whois.domaintools.com/208.66.65.5)
   this is Technorati that I just got my site approved at. Why am I blocking Technorati?
 * Need some info from the PLUGIN AUTHOR or I’ll be going back to WordPress Firewall!
 *  [Jonathon.Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathonsmith/)
 * (@jonathonsmith)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718887)
 * Python-urllib is a python module for opening urls
 * It probably shouldn’t be being blocked. A lot of firewalls block it, because 
   it is used by a lot of not so good visitors, but apparently some valid crawlers
   are using it as well.
 *  [Larry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tippy/)
 * (@tippy)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718889)
 * 3 months this post has been up and no reply from the plugin author. Shows you
   he don’t care. Hell with him, I’m going back to WordPress Firewall. WordPress
   Simple Firewall looks great.
 *  [mikeotgaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeotgaar/)
 * (@mikeotgaar)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718892)
 * Jonathon.Smith is correct in saying
 * > “Python-urllib is a python module for opening urls” and “A lot of firewalls
   > block it, because it is used by a lot of not so good visitors”
 * None of the main stream search engines (Google, Bing, etc) use Python-urllib 
   as a user agent.
 * Many malicious spiders, including web scrapers and hacker bots, use this ID, 
   hence it’s quite common to ban requests when the UA is detected.
 * **If you want to allow these UA’s add ” Python-urllib ” to the Whitelisted Variables
   in OSE Settings.**
 * Personal Opinion: I’ve never seen any good traffic using these UA’s.

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## Tags

 * [robot.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/robot-txt/)
 * [spider](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/spider/)

 * 5 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [mikeotgaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeotgaar/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-malicious-user-agent/#post-3718892)
 * Status: resolved