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HOW do i block this spider from viewing my forum

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I assume you tried robots.txt, since you "killed" all the other spiders. If this one won't adhere to robots.txt, you'll have to block it manually, if you have control of Apache or the firewall of the server.

jcw, a spider is a bot that crawls the web (hence the spider metaphor), following links to catalog sites. It's how Google, Yahoo, and all other indexed search engines create their databases of sites.
 
If you have an appropriate robots.txt set and you don't want your site crawled I suggest perhaps contacting the site running the spider?
 
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