Should i block or allow BlexBot ?

[Fli]

Hello,

can i block BlexBot (http://webmeup-crawler.com/) without any side effects like decreasing real human visitors from search engine or other important sources?

Who uses the Blexbot data?

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I got the notice from the firewall:


Time: Wed Jun 29 **:**:48 2016 +0000
IP: 144.76.97.72 (DE/Germany/blexhn50.webmeup.com)
Failures: 500
Interval: 3600 seconds
Blocked: Temporary Block

Log entries:

[Wed Jun 29 **:00:15 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/
201604
[Wed Jun 29 **:00:18 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/201604
[Wed Jun 29 **:00:22 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/201604
[Wed Jun 29 **:00:25 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/201604
[Wed Jun 29 **:00:30 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/205
[Wed Jun 29 **:00:33 2016] [error] [client 144.76.97.72] File does not exist: /home/username/public_html/205


Accessing some non existing subpages on my website.

Thx

[oneilonline]

I know this is an old thread, but wanted to update it....

We reached out to wowrack to report the abuse because one of our customers received a DDoS attack from webmeup-crawler.



If you visit http://webmeup-crawler.com you would see this is not a legitimate company.
Their one page website has NO company info, NO company address, or NO company contact information.
Their "website" ONLY talks about how they crawl sites for "marketing" purposes but do NOT say why, for what purpose, or what information they are collecting.
This can easily be considered Network Abuse because they are probing servers and we provided proof that they are conducting "DDoS" attacks on servers.
I am VERY surprised you are allowing such activity on your network.
We do not wish to communicate with them and prefer to keep their IPs blocked on our firewall.
We will be reporting them to RBLs and DNSRBLs.
Thank you.


A quick google search also came up with this history:
http://techlorebyigor.blogspot.com/2013/06/blexbot-content-scraper-is-really.html

[oneilonline]

We have found these IPs associated with them:

148.251.101.183
148.251.123.200
148.251.136.43
5.9.18.7
136.243.36.80
136.243.36.88
148.251.43.180
148.251.244.204
148.251.138.39
136.243.36.89
134.17.31.249
108.178.60.2
198.143.129.170
198.143.133.42
198.20.66.122
198.143.129.170
198.143.187.114
198.20.66.122

We have found a few of these to already previously been blocked by us for SPAM.
This would mean that webmeup.com has a history of sending SPAM.