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Prosper202 Counting MSN Bot As "Real Clicks" When Direct Linking... Ruining my Data (7)

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MSN Bot has crawled my LP ~15-20 times and each time it's showing up as a real click in Prosper for a different keyword.

Any idea how to fix this?

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hmm normally that doesn't happen..is it from the same ip?

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For the current P202 you can either ignore it or modify the database to mark it as a filtered click.

This is no longer an issue in hosted Tracking202 with the new bot/crawler filter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF9V968HGJg

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Is there a way to block an IP range?

They all seem to be 157.55.98.XX.

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I tried adding their IP range to my database but couldn't figure out how to do it properly. Was having trouble converting the IP range to the way propser reads it.

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Edit connect2.php if you are on P202 1.7.2
/*new msn*/ if (($ip_address >= -1657405440) and ($ip_address <= -1656946689)) { return true; }

this will block 157.54.0.0 - 157.60.255.255 which all belong to Microsoft

The ip is range format prosper202 uses is created with ip2long($ip_address);

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This trimmed down the list quite a bit, but still around half of the clicks are still shown as "real" with IP of 157.55.100.40, 157.55.98.91, 157.55.98.8, etc

EDIT: Seemed to slowly take effect, and it still occasionally shows bots, but it's better.

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