SiteLock is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by SiteLock.
The SiteLock Spider is a web scanning service scans websites for malware and malicious code.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
SiteLock identifies itself with this user agent string:
SiteLockSpiderAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether SiteLock follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: SiteLockSpider Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteLockSpider Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: SiteLockSpider Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteLockSpider Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteLockSpider group, SiteLock ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.SiteLockSpider from SiteLock's user agent; check SiteLock's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow SiteLock if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersSiteLock is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow SiteLock only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf SiteLock is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows SiteLock by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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SiteLock is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by SiteLock. The SiteLock Spider is a web scanning service scans websites for malware and malicious code.
We have not confirmed whether SiteLock follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: SiteLockSpider" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "SiteLockSpider" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so SiteLock may not follow it, and anyone can send SiteLock's user agent, so a fake SiteLock ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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