How to block "bot*" bot via .htaccess

Hi,

I have the following entry in my Awstats file:

Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*')

Code (markup):

How can I block this bot? I tried the following separately but none of them seems to be catching it:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^bot*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bot\*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bot[*]

Code (ApacheConf):

Thanks for any ideas.

 

Read this: http://www.elxsy.com/2009/06/how-to-identify-and-ban-bots-spiders-crawlers/

 

Thanks for the link, I will check it. I later noticed that my Awstats is an old version and this bot (bot*) is either bingbot or YandexBot, so no need to block it.

 

There was very helpful post on MOZ about blocking bots via .htaccess
https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data