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I do not run the vortex web crawler any more. It was shut down in 2006.

It appears that someone else has decided to use the "vortex" crawler name on their own project. This has nothing to do with me, but it seems that some popular web statistics packages (eg, AWStats) mistakenly point to this page, when in fact I have nothing to do with it.

Until AWStats fixes the problem, my only advice is that you contact the AWStats developers to let them know about their mistake, and/or to block this other vortex robot using your robots.txt file and/or firewall rules.

Thanks for your understanding.