According to Majestic 12 number of fake MJ12bots appeared on the Net with name MJ12bot/v1.0.8 and user Majestic 12. Bot is virus based botnet and tray to infect your site or visitors.Kaspersky Labs have successfully identified this virus They called this fake MJ12bot virus thingy as: Trojan.Win32.Agent.dqy and Trojan.Win32.Zapchast.dv. Boot also try to abuse mail and contact forms on websites .
Solution1. Suggested by Ken from www.kensadservice.com add to .htaccess the following:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MJ12bot/v1\.0\.8 [NC] RewriteRule ^.* - [F]
Solution2. Alternative suggestion from Paul to have this htaccess rule as follows:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MJ12bot/v1\.0\.8.*$ RewriteRule .* - [F]
More about fake MJ12bot on http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch/mj12bot.php
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