Why You Need BotBanish

Started by Randem, September 01, 2017, 10:00:59 PM

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Randem

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September 01, 2017, 10:00:59 PM
        Your website or forum can be bogged down with bots (or humans) that keep searching for vulnerabilities on your sites by using brute force attacks to do so. The bots may sit for hours on end at your site trying to learn how to answers your logon and registration forms or just trying many different combinations that they have learned from other sites that they have attacked or breached. They are sometimes smart enough to not try too many times in a short time span so they will not get locked out. This will not fool BotBanish into not recognizing them and stopping them from attacking your system. They are stealing your bandwidth, creating fake account and spamming your sites. This can lead to all sorts of issues for the regular visitors to your sites. You can spend many hours deleting spam and fake accounts, just to have them recreated, possibly with a different username and/or email.

        BotBanish will not only notify you about these bots but will stop these Bots from accessing your site for good. Vulnerable site information is shared between some bot makers and users and therefore if your site is protected, that information is also shared and you will get less bot attacks (They do not want to waste time and efforts either).

        BotBanish is dynamic protection and that means that you install it and forget it. BotBanish will be on guard 24/7 protecting your site from bot attacks. BotBanish will learn bot behavior then stop them.

    BotBanish will check each user for certain URL phrases that used to find a way to thwart the system in order to create an account so that they or it can SPAM the system. If BotBanish detects that a "user" is guilty of searching for vulnerabilities, BotBanish will modify the .htaccess file with a "deny from" entry so that the "user" cannot attack the system from that IP Address again. Because some IP Addresses are dynamic; this dynamic approach which can lead to legitimate users being blocked from the system, so it is wise to make known a way of contacting your administrator to unblock an IP Address if a bad BOT/USER changes their IP address and a legitimate users gets the blocked IP Address. In this case the administrator of the hosted site will need to remove the IP address from the .htaccess file and place it in the BotBanish white-list and it should also be deleted from the BotBanishServer database table (BotBanishServer_ip).

        BotBanish will automatically relinquish any old IP address from the database and .htaccess file after 30 days of non reporting of bot traffic on that IP address.

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