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I guess you determined it's HTTrack by checking your access logs, right? If so, this means that they are running HTTrack with its default user agent string and you could use this to your advantage by blocking them at the web server level.

 

For example, if your website runs under the popular Apache web server, you could try the .htaccess method: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess13.shtml

 

Other web servers (nginx, lighttpd etc) should also have similar methods to block a known user agent.

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  On 10/20/2014 at 7:18 AM, parsifal said:

I guess you determined it's HTTrack by checking your access logs, right? If so, this means that they are running HTTrack with its default user agent string and you could use this to your advantage by blocking them at the web server level.

 

For example, if your website runs under the popular Apache web server, you could try the .htaccess method: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess13.shtml

 

Other web servers (nginx, lighttpd etc) should also have similar methods to block a known user agent.

Thanks for your information. Since they mirrored our site, and we are not able to stop their server, is there a way to block the current mirror? Also this mirror caused all our google rankings gone, so anyway to get our rankings back quickly? Thanks

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  On 10/20/2014 at 7:18 AM, parsifal said:

I guess you determined it's HTTrack by checking your access logs, right? If so, this means that they are running HTTrack with its default user agent string and you could use this to your advantage by blocking them at the web server level.

 

For example, if your website runs under the popular Apache web server, you could try the .htaccess method: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess13.shtml

 

Other web servers (nginx, lighttpd etc) should also have similar methods to block a known user agent.

Also, I am wondering if we put our site on cloudflare, then there is no need to add these codings since cloudflare do detect bots and block them? Please help advise. Thanks

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  On 10/20/2014 at 7:18 AM, parsifal said:

I guess you determined it's HTTrack by checking your access logs, right? If so, this means that they are running HTTrack with its default user agent string and you could use this to your advantage by blocking them at the web server level.

 

For example, if your website runs under the popular Apache web server, you could try the .htaccess method: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess13.shtml

 

Other web servers (nginx, lighttpd etc) should also have similar methods to block a known user agent.

I am wondering if there is any good tool to monitor the mirror site since we have already let the domain to shut down the site. However, the hacker just blocked all the ips for visiting and we believe he still got our data there so we want to know if there is a tool to 24/7 monitor the site and we can get an alert asap when he opened the site again for visiting. Also, is there a tool to monitor other potential mirror sites for future cautions? So that we can take actions immediately after the quick detection. Thanks a lot for your help there! And anyone has a suggestion, please help share it here. Thanks

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  On 10/29/2014 at 2:59 PM, uvip said:

I am wondering if there is any good tool to monitor the mirror site since we have already let the domain to shut down the site. However, the hacker just blocked all the ips for visiting and we believe he still got our data there so we want to know if there is a tool to 24/7 monitor the site and we can get an alert asap when he opened the site again for visiting.

Pingdom is a quite popular online service for this kind of task. You can try it with a free account and decide for yourself if it suits your needs. :)

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