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swo0sh_gt_13163
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Sep 18, 2013

How to prevent HTTrack using ASM? [A bit urgent]

Hello Folks,   Can I have any clue about preventing HTTrack like tools to download the website, and analyze it later using ASM? I am sorry, but this is a bit urgent, if you guys can help.   Tha...
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ltwagnon
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Sep 18, 2013

I wrote an article a few months ago that highlighted the web scraping detection/prevention capabilities of the ASM. There are some pretty cool features you can turn on to prevent web scraping. You would need to set appropriate levels for session/transaction anomalies, but the article talks about how to do that. Here's a link to the article:

 

These are not the scrapes you're looking for!

 

Let me know if this helps or if you need any other information.

 

Thanks! John