Bad Behaviour
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Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however. Bad Behavior is available for several PHP-based software packages, and also can be integrated in seconds into any PHP script.
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- Bad Behavior is Moving
- It's time for you to update your feed links and bookmarks. Bad Behavior is moving to a new home! [?]
- Bad Behavior 2.0.9
- Bad Behavior 2.0.9 has been released. It is a strongly recommended upgrade for all users. This release is likely the final release in the 2.0 series as I make a major change in the development process; see below for details on this change. This release addresses a further set of “false positive” reports received from [...] [?]
- More Bad Behavior verbose logs needed
- Last week I asked for people to send in Bad Behavior verbose logs if they had readers from certain countries. First, I want to say thank you to everyone who sent in logs. Second, it looks like I need logs from a different set of countries than those originally posted. If your blog is hosted in any of [...] [?]
- Cyveillance Bad Behavior
- “Online risks are becoming more complex and pervasive by the day,” says the home page of the Cyveillance web site. Indeed, one of the risks is that your Web site might be targeted by Cyveillance. The company says that it crawls the Internet looking for phishing scams, identity theft, illegal credit card numbers, trademark and copyright infringement, [...] [?]
- Bad Behavior 2.0.8
- Bad Behavior 2.0.8 has been released. This version contains updates for various “false positive” reports and is recommended for all users. Updated in this release (since 2.0.7): Verizon Wireless EV-DO users are no longer blocked. Blocked requests will be subject to a two-second delay before a response is sent. (See below.) Some blackhole lists previously used in Bad [...] [?]
- Bad Behavior is WordPress 2.1 Ready
- The forthcoming release of WordPress 2.1 includes internal changes which may cause some plugins to stop functioning. Such plugins will need to be upgraded along with your WordPress 2.1 upgrade. Bad Behavior 2 has been checked against these changes and found to be ready for WordPress 2.1 without any changes required. Users upgrading to WordPress 2.1 [...] [?]
- Bad Behavior verbose logs needed
- I’m now working on improved spam detection for certain circumstances where enabling Bad Behavior’s strict mode would block the spam, but would also block legitimate readers of your blogs. For this work I need verbose Bad Behavior logs from some of you, in order to analyze the legitimate readers and differentiate them from spammers. All data submitted [...] [?]
- Vote for me in the 2006 Weblog Awards
- One of my other blogs, Homeland Stupidity, has been selected as a finalist in the 2006 Weblog Awards Best Centrist Blog category. This is wonderful news because it means I have the potential to pull in a large number of new readers to my flagship blog, increasing my revenue and freeing up more time for me [...] [?]
- Spam Surge
- In the last two days I’ve seen a tenfold increase in the amount of spam being delivered, both that is being blocked, and isn’t being blocked, by Bad Behavior. While the spam started around the same time as I released Bad Behavior 2.0.7 yesterday, there doesn’t appear to be any correlation between the two. I inspected [...] [?]
- Bad Behavior 2.0.7
- Bad Behavior 2.0.7 has been released. I’ve got a nice roundup of bug fixes this time around. Most people should upgrade right away to take advantage of the fixes and additional spam protections. New in this release (since 2.0.6): A bug (apparently in MediaWiki) which caused blank lines to appear on rendered pages in MediaWiki 1.7 [...] [?]
- Comments, pings closed due to spam
- Comments and pings on this blog are closed until further notice. This was, I regret to say, a last resort measure. I tend to dislike blogs which don’t accept comments and trackbacks. So why close comments? [?]
- Bad Behavior 2 for Drupal
- A user wrote in to let me know that Bad Behavior 2 has finally been ported to Drupal. The work is pretty early and needs some spit and polish, but you can get the early results from the Drupal site. [?]
- Bad Behavior Blackhole Update
- About a year ago I started a project called the Bad Behavior Blackhole. The purpose of the blackhole was to list known sources of blog spam and to publish that data for the use of bloggers who wanted to make use of it to prevent spam. Due to lack of time, I put the project on [...] [?]
- I spotted some Bad Behavior
- People ask me about making money from AdSense all the time. While I usually will offer little tips and tricks that I’ve learned along the way, one thing I want to make sure that new AdSense publishers know is what NOT to do. The number one thing that you should NOT do is STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S [...] [?]
- I spotted some Bad Behavior
- People ask me about making money from AdSense all the time. While I usually will offer little tips and tricks that I’ve learned along the way, one thing I want to make sure that new AdSense publishers know is what NOT to do. The number one thing that you should NOT do is STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S [...] [?]
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