Is there a way to block someone

[crust]

ok when i click on the whos in my store button, theres someone thats totaly just playing around with the shopping cart eating up my bandwidth... ill i have is their ip adress, is there a way to block this personfrom useing my site?

[mark27uk3]

Have you checked the ip address to see if it is a spider?

 

Do you have 'Prevent Spider Sessions' set to false in your configuration?

 

Mark

[crust]

Have you checked the ip address to see if it is a spider?

 

Do you have 'Prevent Spider Sessions' set to false in your configuration?

 

Mark

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the ip adress is 64.124.85.208

 

it comes back as a host, i don't know, do spiders add stuff to their shopping cart?

[qubit]

Doing a trace on that address comes back with 64.124.85.208.exava.com. If you go to exava.com it says:

 

'We are building the next generation search engine for shopping... Please stay tuned! Exava is a new company created by the founders of mySimon and Wisenut.

'

 

It looks like it could well be a spider or something similar cataloging sites. Why don't you contact them and ask what's going off?

 

Cheers,

Q

[♥yesudo]

there is a ban ip contrib - but follow up on what Qubit says first.

[ozcsys]

I would check in your hosting control panel, many allow to ban ip addresses.

[Guest]

I've seen Excava on one of my sites. I marked it as a bot in whos_online.php.

 

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