HuaweiSymantecSpider

scanner HuaweiSymantecSpider\/

Huawei Symantec security spider

About this crawler

HuaweiSymantecSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern HuaweiSymantecSpider\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block HuaweiSymantecSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: HuaweiSymantecSpider
2026-05-012026-06-040.15%

Technical details

Name
HuaweiSymantecSpider
Pattern
HuaweiSymantecSpider\/
Tags
scanner
Reference
http://www.huaweisymantec.com/en/IRL/spider
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

HuaweiSymantecSpider/[email protected]+(compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR ; http://www.huaweisymantec.com/cn/IRL/spider)
HuaweiSymantecSpider/[email protected]+(compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR ; http://www.huaweisymantec.com/en/IRL/spider)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow HuaweiSymantecSpider:

User-agent: HuaweiSymantecSpider Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HuaweiSymantecSpider\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "HuaweiSymantecSpider\\/") { return 403; }
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