I just got through reading the .htaccess file you referred to in your third post. For crying out loud delete that crap from it, in fact delete your .htaccess altogether unless there is some specific rewrite rule you must have.

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "libwww-perl/" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^libcurl-agent/" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Java/" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Mozilla/4\.0\ .*Win\ 9x\ 4\.90.*$" bad_bot

Bad bots my arse.

If you have any commercial web based software on your server then most likely banning libcurl is going to render your license invalid. 60% of scripts utilizing a call home licensing system will use libcurl. And banning jre's from detecting if your site supports java, hrrm real smart.

That is a load of crap someone read on a forum populated by clueless paranoids.

Take 10 minutes to read the apache documentation on .htacces and SetEnvIfNoCase and see what your nice shiney new .htaccess file does. It is not doing you any good, believe me.

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