AWSTAT - Traffic not viewed - Bandwidth Loss

[Wess]

In C-Panel - Awstats, I see that 27 Gig of my bandwidth is being used up as "Traffic not viewed". This is 27% of my bandwidth. My website is heavy on video (*.wmv) and I am suspecting someone might be hot linking to my website. No hard evidence jet.

I have contacted HG several times but I can not get a straight answer on how to resolve this problem.

Below are two separate changes I tried to make to my .htaccess file to stop either robots/spiders or hot linking from eating up my bandwidth (original .htaccess backed-up). Unfortunately, both of these changes block me either from accessing my own site or viewing my videos.

With a new month around the corner I want to put in place code that will remedy this problem.

Here is what I tried:

1. Replaced the .htaccess file with the code below either at the root of my domain or in the /public_html/media/ folder, but the code denies me access to my site or media.

SetEnvIf Referer “my_websites_name”.com internal
SetEnvIf User-Agent "BadSpider" badspider
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from env=internal
</LIMIT>

2. I expanded the code below by adding WMV to the restricted list to files:
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC] to
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|wmv)$ - [F,NC]

But this blocks me from playing back my on videos on my site. ( I do not have a firewall and I am running Win XP SP 1)

I greatly appreciate all your help in regards to mitigating this problem.

Sincerely,

Wess

[esl]

Couldn't you just setup Hotlink Protection from within cPanel?

[Wess]

I have, but that has not stoped it.

[Kimbot]

Maybe check your awstats bots listings, maybe Google is going nuts with its bot on your collection of movie files?

[Wess]

Here is my bots listings,

Googlebot 6.69 MB
MSNBot 2.85 MB
Alexa 805.09 MB
Inktomi 954.52 KB
Unknown robot 1.14 MB
AskJeeves 229.54 KB

There is nothings that is significantly eating up bandwidth.

[quietFinn]

I have used instructions in this page: http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Prevent_bandwidth_theft

to prevent bandwidth theft.

[PFunk]

Do you have anonymous ftp enabled? I believe traffic for ftp is also included in that stat.