[dVenom]

Might as well save some bandwith while you're at it, tell your host to add this to httpd.conf or you could cut the <Directory></Directory> parts off and add it to .htaccess

<Directory "/">
## from http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/blocking-bad-bots-and-scrapers-with-htaccess.html
# IF THE UA STARTS WITH THESE
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(aesop_com_spiderman|alexibot|bananacrawler|backweb|bandit|batchftp|bigfoot) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(black.?hole|blackwidow|blowfish|botalot|buddy|builtbottough|bullseye) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(cheesebot|cherrypicker|chinaclaw|collector|copier|copyrightcheck) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(cosmos|crescent|curl|custo|da|diibot|disco|dittospyder|dragonfly) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(drip|easydl|ebingbong|ecatch|eirgrabber|emailcollector|emailsiphon) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(emailwolf|erocrawler|exabot|eyenetie|filehound|flashget|flunky) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(frontpage|getright|getweb|go.?zilla|go-ahead-got-it|gotit|grabnet) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(grafula|harvest|hloader|hmview|httplib|httrack|humanlinks|ilsebot) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(infonavirobot|infotekies|intelliseek|interget|iria|jennybot|jetcar) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(joc|justview|jyxobot|kenjin|keyword|larbin|leechftp|lexibot|lftp|libweb) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(likse|linkscan|linkwalker|lnspiderguy|lwp|magnet|mag-net|markwatch) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(mata.?hari|memo|microsoft.?url|midown.?tool|miixpc|mirror|missigua) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(mister.?pix|moget|mozilla.?newt|nameprotect|navroad|backdoorbot|nearsite) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(net.?vampire|netants|netcraft|netmechanic|netspider|nextgensearchbot) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(attach|nicerspro|nimblecrawler|npbot|octopus|offline.?explorer) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(offline.?navigator|openfind|outfoxbot|pagegrabber|papa|pavuk) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(pcbrowser|php.?version.?tracker|pockey|propowerbot|prowebwalker) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(psbot|pump|queryn|recorder|realdownload|reaper|reget|true_robot) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(repomonkey|rma|internetseer|sitesnagger|siphon|slysearch|smartdownload) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(snake|snapbot|snoopy|sogou|spacebison|spankbot|spanner|sqworm|superbot) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(superhttp|surfbot|asterias|suzuran|szukacz|takeout|teleport) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(telesoft|the.?intraformant|thenomad|tighttwatbot|titan|urldispatcher) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(turingos|turnitinbot|urly.?warning|vacuum|vci|voideye|whacker) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(widow|wisenutbot|wwwoffle|xaldon|xenu|zeus|zyborg|anonymouse) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*web(zip|emaile|enhancer|fetch|go.?is|auto|bandit|clip|copier|master|reaper|sauger|site.?quester|whack) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(craftbot|download|extract|stripper|sucker|ninja|clshttp|webspider|leacher|collector|grabber|webpictures) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(libwww-perl|aesop_com_spiderman) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
Deny from env=HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT

## Stop browser prefetching
RewriteEngine On
SetEnvIfNoCase X-Forwarded-For .+ proxy=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase X-moz prefetch no_access=yes

# block pre-fetch requests with X-moz headers
RewriteCond %{ENV:no_access} yes
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]


## Image/video hijacking
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZangoToolbar [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://adwaresucks.com/zango
RewriteRule .*protectx\.php$ - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !your-mgp\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !your-blog\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !your-other-site\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !bing\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !ask\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !yahoo\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|mpeg|mpg|wmv)$ [NC,F]
</Directory>

[jack]

dVenom

Thank you very helpful

[jennyesponda]

i ma unable to add httpd.conf file

[travelsmile]

mine works perfect. but i dunno if this is a problem my side or if this is ment to happen.