Friday, January 28, 2005

Missigua Locator spambot

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]