Can ViArt products be spidered by web bots?
 
How some it doesn't create a default robots.txt for you. It looks to me like it leaves ecerything open to spidering by defult, which is slightly worrying.
 
Am I right?

I would recommend making a robots.txt along the lines of:
 
User-agent: *
Disallow: /basket.php
Disallow: /user_login.php
Disallow: /admin
 
At least they wont't spider the basket and login pages or your admin folder with this (assuming they follow the rules). You could use a .htaccess file to do the same thing...
 
Put it in your web root.

I find this usefull for people that collect custumer emails, this robot.txt also block spiders that get emails adresses from your web site, Sorry is big but if the admin consider it no usefull please removed I just want to help.
 
User-agent: *
Disallow: /basket.php
Disallow: /user_login.php
Disallow: /admin
User-agent: asterias
Disallow: /
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Black Hole
Disallow: /
User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow: /
User-agent: Cegbfeieh
Disallow: /
User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow: /
User-agent: cosmos
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow: /
User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: Foobot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: hloader
Disallow: /
User-agent: httplib
Disallow: /
User-agent: humanlinks
Disallow: /
User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow: /
User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Disallow: /
User-agent: LexiBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /
User-agent: LNSpiderguy
Disallow: /
User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow: /
User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mata Hari
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
Disallow: /
User-agent: MIIxpc
Disallow: /
User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mister PiX
Disallow: /
User-agent: moget
Disallow: /
User-agent: moget/2.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: mozilla/4
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows XP)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 2000)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows ME)
Disallow: /
User-agent: mozilla/5
Disallow: /
User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow: /
User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow: /
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openfind
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openfind data gathere
Disallow: /
User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow: /
User-agent: ProWebWalker
Disallow: /
User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
Disallow: /
User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow: /
User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow: /
User-agent: RMA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /
User-agent: SpankBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: spanner
Disallow: /
User-agent: suzuran
Disallow: /
User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow: /
User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /
User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: Telesoft
Disallow: /
User-agent: The Intraformant
Disallow: /
User-agent: TheNomad
Disallow: /
User-agent: TightTwatBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Titan
Disallow: /
User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
Disallow: /
User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow: /
User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: turingos
Disallow: /
User-agent: URLy Warning
Disallow: /
User-agent: VCI
Disallow: /
User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebEnhancer
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebSauger
Disallow: /
User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow: /
User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZip/4.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget/1.6
Disallow: /
User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu's
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /