Harvest Blocking Question

New Member Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 20

The following user was blocked due to the harvest blocking portion of Sentinel. What exactly did he do to get himself banned because he is a forum regular on my site and not a bot.

Date & Time: 2004-08-23 08:45:24
Blocked IP: 211.*.*.*
User ID: NICE (756)
Reason: Abuse-Harvest
String Match: da
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User Agent: DA 7.0
Query String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
Forwarded For: none
Client IP: none
Remote Address: 211.29.113.70
Remote Port: 4768
Request Method: GET

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:34 am

Because the user agent matched one in the harvest list (da). You can remove da from the list.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:02 pm

Actually I got the same match today.

Quote:

String Match: da
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User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Neostrada Plus 5.6)

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:00 pm

I just got a DA block today as well. I wonder if it is a false positive?

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:54 am

Today it banned me at my job, had to make someone go in from home and turn harvesting off. Thank god that was the only option that I had write to .htaccess off.

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:00 am

all I have blocked from my site is harvesters.

Am I really at risk if I turn that option off completely?