Comments on: Punishing Bad Behavior

By: Michael Curry

Michael Curry — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:42:24 +0000

Thanks for the awesome work! Several of my Drupal-based sites have been under recent attack, and I’ve been able to block them using a variety of techniques; now it’s time to adopt Bad Behavior and prepare for the next wave. I’ll let you know how it performs.

I think that behavior-based monitoring is definitely the way to go. My sites have shown an interesting pattern leading up to spammer attacks, so I’m optimistic that these techniques can help us stay one step ahead of the spammers.

Cheers!

-Mike

By: Amy Stephen

Amy Stephen — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:41:21 +0000

Michael -

Your tool is *amazing*! It is literally saving my website from comment spam attacks. I appreciate very much you freely sharing your work.

Now, I have a question for you – is it possible to override by IP address the blocking? I have a couple of friends who have been blocked. I had to remove the WP plug-in while one posted and I don’t want to let my guard down.

Maybe this is too specialized of a need — most wouldn’t know how to use it — for me, though, I sure would use such a feature. But, I love it just the way it is, too, and I thank you sincerely for sharing.

Amy

By: verywide.net » KILL SPAMmers…

verywide.net » KILL SPAMmers… — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:51:41 +0000

[...] There are a lot of plugins for WordPress, a number of them dedicated to stopping spam. Out of the many I looked at, Bad Behavior struck me as being particularly effective. So, I installed it. Quickly and easily, too, using Fetch. Once I fired up the plugin, I didn’t have too long to wait. Within an hour Bad Behavior had caught ~20 “spambots” (see the Web Robots FAQ for more info) trying to accomplish their nefarious ends. Since yesterday, it has caught 77 spambots. And nothing has gotten through even to Askimet. Needless to say, I am quite pleased with Bad Behavior and hope someday to donate some currency to its creator, Michael Hampton (who also happens to run a recommended site, Homeland Stupidity). [...]

By: skippy

skippy — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:17 +0000

Great work. I was initially skeptical, as to the efficacy and the responsiveness, of Bad Behaviour. I’m glad I installed it though: I see nothing to complain about, and a lot to praise.

Thanks!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:14:56 +0000

Thanks for bringing us BB. I’ve been looking for the ‘ideal’ combination of blog anti-spam measures, and BB seems to be high in the running.

I’m glad you have more ideas in the works… I’m concerned that at some point the spambots may be indistinguishable from regular browsers, and that blocking open proxys may limit a percentage of legitimate users (as Captchas or JavaScript do).

I’m considering writing a SpamAssassin plugin for Nucleus which would make comment handling as easy as the junk mail handling in Thunderbird.

I’m curious about your experience with SA – did you find that it doesn’t process spam comments (made into mail format) as well as regular mail?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:44:15 +0000

Just spread the word far and wide.

By: Cyrris

Cyrris — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:55:08 +0000

Indeed. I installed Bad Behaviour just yesterday on my own blog, and even after 24 hours I’m already pleased with the results.

You do awesome work, and the best part is that we all benefit so much from it – and for free! I’m impressed. Very impressed.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:08:04 +0000

Need I even mention how much I love your plugin that I wrote the plugin to display the stats

Thanks for giving the community such an amazing plugin. I know I have really saved a lot of cleanup time and dedicated it to learning and blogging after I used Bad Behavior

If I can help in anyway, don’t hesitate to ask

By: steve caturan

steve caturan — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:58:45 +0000

using php.ini, i use BB to prepend it for all of my hosted sites. i haven’t had a single complaint since i implemented the scheme along with mod_security. looking forward to future updates. keep up the good work!