If you have an ecommerce web site, using software such as Zen Cart, OSCommerce, XCart etc, you may be wondering why your web site is getting thousands of hits from 38.98.120.71, and your sever is getting slower and slower, yet your monthly sales is going down instead of up. What is the problem? Hum, it is a annoying Spam Bot called Shopwiki from 38.98.120.71.

Shopwiki (http://shopwiki.com/) is a useless spam bot. It will waste your 95% monthly bandwidth by crawling your web site more than 10,000 time per day. It ignores your .htaccess file. It won’t give your business any benefit.

Let’s block it:

1, Create a file name: robots.txt in your document root directory, put the following lines in the file:

User-agent: ShopWiki
Disallow: /

2, Put the following lines to your web site’s http.conf file. Make sure the directory is correct.

<Directory "/home/zencart/webapps">
Deny from 38.98.120.71
</Directory>

3, If this does not fix the problem, send emails to those stupid guys:

Kiss Rotten <kr@shopwiki.com>

Bull Shxt <bs@shopwiki.com>

Eat Hungry <eh@shopwiki.com>

Shxt Zebra Watering <szw@shopwiki.com>

Donkey Monster <dm@shopwiki.com>

If you need to send each of them 10,000 emails, you can download an automated mailer from some websites.