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Block Microsofts bizzare spider (makes SPY useless)

I have a list of over 100 "blocked" ips, but that's not enought, Microsofts bizarre spider (always comes from live.com and searches for keywords in my posts - and indicates an User agent IE6) This is a spider no doubt.

65.55.107/24
65.55.108/24
65.55.109/24
65.55.110/24

The spider renders live view meaningless as I only have those in there.

How to block them, you don't allow me more then 100

Posted Sat Apr 4 2009 3:53a by marcomom***


I've noticed the same problem. Also, it's always from "Microsoft Corp".

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 4:29a by ticketstum***


Same here!

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 5:52a by medal***


I've been wondering about these... perhaps this is driving up the Live search numbers vs. Google and Yahoo?

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 8:51a by TDidd***


I suppose it's part of a new way to spider. Anyways I need a way to filter these out. Please clicky team.

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 11:03a by marcomom***


Ditto, they search on useless key words

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 6:25p by jnai***


I'll probably manually block these searches in the future. Agree they're annoying. They pollute our stats too. I don't know why they do it. Just makes Microsoft look like a bunch of amateur jackasses.

Posted Sun Apr 5 2009 9:10p by Your Friendly Clicky Admin


Good news everyone, I just implemented some code that should completely block this bot from showing up anymore in your stats. Unless the IP addresses change in the future.

Posted Thu Apr 9 2009 11:49a by Your Friendly Clicky Admin


http://getclicky.com/blog/159/microsofts-spam-bot-has-been-blocked

Posted Thu Apr 9 2009 12:34p by Your Friendly Clicky Admin


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