iearthworm image bot

[malamute]

look out for this one and ban it on your website,the ip is 203.209.240.175,i do a block ban on 203.209. iearthworm is one of yahoos rogue crawlers

[lord_of_the_badgers]

nothin on Symantec's site mate.. the only site i can find that properly mentions it requires me to register, and i don't want to!

doesn't sound like a particularly virulent threat to me

[malamute]

i looked it up after it accessed my web site the first time,and that is what i saw,the warnings about it but you make up your own mind,if you want loosers like these coming to your site and stealing images,well................But i also have ALL search bots block banned on my site ie 192.192..Some of them get a new ip now and then so that ip gets block banned as well.One of the worst loosers is google,once that moron finds something it just keeps on coming back.I also have an htaccess file on my webpage so that when an ip access's my webpage,my htaccess file checks wether that ip is banned and if it is a 403 error message gets shown
Oh and you wont find it on symantecs site

[455rocket]

Those web-spiders can crawl all over my pages as much as they like, especially google. I have sold very few photos (selling photos wasn't my reason for posting photos on pbase and I don't list my photos as for sale) but every photo I have sold has been because my images popped up in google image search and then the interested party e-mailed and enquired about my photos. So those spiders have made my photographic hobby pay for itself.