Nobody has adopted MySimpleCmdBot yet. Adopt MySimpleCmdBot: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.
MySimpleCmdBot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty. Last time, Googlebot stole the Lightly Salted Packet Loss Popcorn, 2 h ago.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.
No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.
How to block MySimpleCmdBot
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from MySimpleCmdBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block MySimpleCmdBot from the whole site User-agent: MySimpleCmdBot Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: MySimpleCmdBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 18:00. After dark, like a burglar.
Requested 15 disallowed pages out of 22 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door. Last caught 3 h ago.
Opened 5,412 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Diver. Takes the door in the same spot every time (the names change from room to room) and heads straight down. Watch it in the Labyrinth →
Where it comes from
Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does MySimpleCmdBot respect robots.txt?
No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 15 times.
Will blocking MySimpleCmdBot hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does MySimpleCmdBot visit?
Here, about 3 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.