Tasapspider/0.9

Just found this “bot” going crazy on a site that is on a dedicated server, took the entire server offline. This bot looks to be new and from China, so be on the lookout.

Other reports are saying it is ignoring the robots.txt file, so might not be good enough to deny it there.

It was coming from 218.28.29.236

Here are more details about that IP, and what ranges you might want to block.

http://whois.domaintools.com/218.28.29.236

I placed the following in my .htaccess file


order allow,deny
deny from 218.28.
deny from 218.29.
allow from all


Please post a comment if you this bot has hit your site.