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Question Ban bad bots in Plesk Admin?

TinaBura

Basic Pleskian
I would like to ban/block bad bots like PetalBot. I have IPs and IP ranges that should not crawl my sites.

The question is: Is it possible to do it in Plesk Admin panel somehow? I am not a Linux expert and do not trust myself to make changes in the console.
 
 
It's kinda old:

Code:
...
# DEV Notes:
# List of bad bots fetched from http://www.user-agents.org
# Generated on Thu Nov  7 14:23:35 PST 2013 by files/gen_badbots.
#
# Author: Yaroslav Halchenko
 
That it's outdated and useless.
There are better and more up2date lists of bad bots, i.e.:

 
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