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[harry2cool]

Just now I see the below on our "Who's Online Page"

Currently there are 6973 customers online
Duplicate IP Addresses: 6906
Total Unique Users: 67.

This time most of them are from :
Host: -host.colocrossing.com

They are from multiple Ip's

How do we avoid such situations , is there a way to block these types of visits automatically.

We are on Zencart version v1.5.4

[DrByte]

colocrossing.com is a hosting service, a server farm. It's not uncommon to find several of their servers hijacked and used for spamming and ddos attacks.

You could add a "deny" rule into your hosting account (ie: .htaccess rule, or otherwise) to block the IP ranges represented by those IP addresses.
Or if you have your own server and you control its firewall, you could block those IP ranges using that.

There isn't anything in Zen Cart that can magically detect whether a visitor is a spammer.

[harry2cool]

Thanks for the reply DrByte

There were several Ip's all different

I followed this link:
http://support.hostgator.com/article...ainly-for-bots

and used these codes on the .htaccess:
##begin code
##start blocking potentially unwanted bots.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^colocrossing
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
##end code. bai bots.

hopefully will not face this issue again.

Thanks

[DrByte]

I doubt the "user agent" was set to colocrossing, as I doubt they were "search bots".