How can I prevent sh404SEF Anti-flood control from blocking SEOMoz?

[JBradySD]

I'm using sh404SEF on my Joomla 1.5 website. Last week, I activated the security functions of the tool, which includes an anti-flood control feature. This morning when I looked at my new crawl statistics in SEOMoz, I noticed a significant drop in the number of webpages crawled, and I'm attributing that to the security configurations that I made earlier in the week.

I'm looking for a way to prevent this from happening so the next crawl is accurate. I was thinking of using sh404SEFs  "UserAgent white list" feature. Does SEOMoz have a UserAgent string that I could try adding to my white list?  Is this what you guys recommend as a solution to this problem?

[smokin_ace]

Frankly speaking there is no reason for you to keep the Security Function switch ON. I have around 20 websites done on Joomla CMS and all of them packed with sh404SEF since I found it the most accurate and bug free SEF component for Joomla.  And during all this time I have been using it, the Security Function has been Switched OFF. Same I will recommend for you, it is useless.

And remember the main purpose of sh404 is to make your website more SEO friendly but not to prevent from hacker attacks. So it's not an security component so far and still it might have a lot of bugs and mistakes.

BTW I read somewhere in INTERNET that many people had the same problem like you, but with different robots, not only SEOmoz. So you should be also careful because it might make a negative impact on other search engines.

I advise: Turn this sh*t OFF ;)))