Comments on: Bad Behavior 1.0-rc1

By: Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2 Alpha 2

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2 Alpha 2 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:38:33 +0000

[...] Bad Behavior was first introduced a year ago, (holy crap it HAS been that long!) it was the first tool of its kind targeting malicious activity [...]

By: Lunacy Unleashed » Bad Behavior 2 Alpha 2

Lunacy Unleashed » Bad Behavior 2 Alpha 2 — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:01:26 +0000

[...] When Bad Behavior was first introduced a year ago, (holy crap it HAS been that long!) it was the first tool of its kind targeting malicious activity on a wide variety of Web sites and platforms. While a few other similar solutions exist, such as mod_security for Apache, they can’t be installed by the user, and they don’t specifically target blog and forum spam, wiki vandalism and the like. [...]

By: Spontaneous Monotony » Blog Archive » Anti-spam plugins

Spontaneous Monotony » Blog Archive » Anti-spam plugins — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:05:00 +0000

[...] I’ve just installed a new anti-spam plugin- Bad Behaviour- which aims to block comment and referrer spambots as soon as they try to access the site. If any of you get a weird error page (a 412 calling you a spammer) then please e-mail me via the address on that page. Of course if you are reading this post then it probably hasn’t misidentified you, but just in case! [...]

By: Punishing Bad Behavior - IO ERROR

Punishing Bad Behavior - IO ERROR — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:20:11 +0000

[...] At some point I realized there was an approach seemingly no one had tried yet. I did several Google searches looking for any evidence that anyone had tried this approach with any software on any blog, forum, wiki or CMS, and came up empty. I began coding, and about a week later I put out the first release candidate of Bad Behavior. [...]

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:34:36 +0000

Bad Behavior 1.0-rc2

There is now a permanent page for Bad Behavior.
Spam, spam, spam, baked beans and spam
On Sunday I announced Bad Behavior 1.0 Release Candidate 1. Go read that page and the permanent pages for all the details on what it is.
I was quite pleasantly…

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:26:44 +0000

I think the problem from solution at #6 came from the require being inside a class declaration. I’ve had a wide variety of bugs trying things such as this in php in the past.

I’ll likely stick to the index.php solution or try Podz’ .htaccess solution. No need to let ref karma hog resources for something that shouldn’t even make a hit in the first place.

By: ricardo galli

ricardo galli — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:26:49 +0000

To #6 and others regarding making it work with Wp-cache.

Are you sure you cannot do it by inserting the following tags in your plugin?

<!–mclude some.php–>
< ?php require(‘some.php’); ?>
<!–/mclude–>

BTW wp-cache will [only] always execute “some.php”.

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:30:49 +0000

I presume that enabling the plugin thereafter is redundant?

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:29:23 +0000

actually, the hack in comment 6 fails miserably because of stream errors.

the correct method is to modify the index.php file of your site. assuming you are also using referrer karma, it will thus read:

require_once(‘wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php’);
require_once (‘wp-content/referrer-karma.php’);
check_referrer();
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:24:28 +0000

Denis, indeed, enabling the plugin after that is completely redundant, and you should leave it disabled if you install Bad Behavior in that manner, or you will get errors. I'll have to look at WP-Cache again; the code I posted seems like it should work. Podz also posted a solution based on .htaccess which might be helpful to some people.