Noticed in my logs recently, thousands of hits from the Missigua Locator spambot - it's used to harvest email addresses from websites.
Here's how you can stop it - just create a dot htaccess file in the document root directory of your site - with the content below. This will throw backa 403 access denied error to the bot.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Missigua [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
Friday, January 28, 2005
Missigua Locator spambot
Posted by chunkybacon at 4:50 pm