Amazon AWS Bot

[djdavedawson]

I noticed multiple entries in my who's online from -> Host: ec2-75-101-183-225.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

This is apparently some kind of Bot. Im not sure if it is good or bad but noticed this morning that it was addding almost all my products to cart.

I didn't think bots could add to cart.

Does anyone any any info on this ?

Thanks

~D

[Louis]

Same here!!

This started happening about two weeks ago. Any idea on how to block this bot by using robots.txt ?

Host: ec2-79-125-59-235.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
User Agent: my 1.4

[djdavedawson]

I found out it was this site unleashing the spiders ->http://websitegrader.com/ After a few attempts with robots.txt and htaccess I ended up having to block the ips cause the spider would change it's name. I did this through cpanel at the account level. Deny ips settings. I have never seen them again. :)

[Louis]

My Control Panel does not offer that option and since I am running on Windows I can not use .httaccess either.

I ended up adding the following code to my index.php file and the problem went away.

$banned = array('79.125.59.235');
if(in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $banned))
{
    die();
} 

[djdavedawson]

There was a total of 5 IP's I had to block to stop it.

75.101.183.225

174.129.81.52

67.202.63.69

75.101.184.193

174.129.141.168

[Louis]

Thank you for the info, I will add these IP's to the list.