Bad Behavior 1.2
August 16th, 2005 by Michael Hampton
Update August 19: Bad Behavior is now available for Drupal.
Bad Behavior 1.2 has been released. Bad Behavior stops link spam at the front door by denying spammers the ability to access your PHP-based web site at all.
Thanks to all of you who tested the release candidates, and actually found fewer bugs than I was expecting. Either I’m getting better at this, or you guys aren’t actually installing the software. 
New in this release:
- Bad Behavior now has whitelisting capability. Edit the file
bad-behavior-whitelist.phpto add any IP address ranges or user agents you need to whitelist for your particular site. (Note that search engine bots should not be whitelisted by user agent, but by IP address range, because spammers pretend to be search engine bots. Bad Behavior already passes all major search engine bots which behave properly.) - The specific reason for blocking is now logged in the database. This will help in determining whether new robots should be blocked by Bad Behavior or not.
- Several additional spammers have been identified and blocked in this release.
- When logging is turned on, Bad Behavior will identify spammers it has recently seen, even if their profile changes, and continue to block them.
BillSaysThis Says
Is there any correlation with BB Blackhole or is this release independent of that?
Thanks!
Aug 16th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
Michael Hampton Says
BIllSaysThis, this release is independent of the Bad Behavior Blackhole.
During release candidate testing I was able to test sending data to the blackhole, and as a result of the test, determined it would be entirely unnecessary for most people, but very low traffic sites would benefit from it.
The sending of any data has been removed from this release.
It’s likely to come back in the future, for the benefit it will provide to low-traffic sites, but Bad Behavior is quite capable of finding spammers on its own, assuming the spammers actually visit.
Aug 16th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
BillSaysThis Says
So you suggest removing Blackhole (because BB1.2 is capable of doing the job on its own)?
Aug 16th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
Michael Hampton Says
Er, no, I didn’t say that.
Aug 16th, 2005 at 6:45 pm
Anne Says
Thanks for the great plugin. My site is only a little bit older than a month, but that doesn’t mean spammers won’t find you: BB has stopped over 3000 access attempts in the last seven days. Can you imagine the mess if I wouldn’t have installed BB?
Aug 19th, 2005 at 4:10 am