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.
How to block Wget
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 Wget's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block Wget from the whole site User-agent: Wget Disallow: /
Wget reads robots.txt when it downloads a site recursively, but not for single files.
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: Wget Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
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.
Questions site owners ask
Does Wget respect robots.txt?
We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.
Will blocking Wget hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does Wget visit?
Here, about 0 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.