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hecBot

Name: hecBot
Author: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

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Scanning links for malicious intent Operated by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd..

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is hecBot?

hecBot is a web crawler operated by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.. Scanning links for malicious intent

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

hecBot

Operator

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Why it crawls your site

hecBot crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow hecBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block hecBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: 
Disallow: /

# Allow hecBot full access
User-agent: 
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows . Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.'s documentation.