Comments on: Bad Behavior 2.0.11

By: Wordpress Problems « Netninja.com

Wordpress Problems « Netninja.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:24:42 +0000

[...] I added my IP to the whitelist and promptly forgot until this morning when Substitute pointed to a new release of Bad-Behavior. I guess one of the sites BB checks was returning a constant false-positive, so *everyone* [...]

By: Bad Behaviour e erro 403 | OMEdI

Bad Behaviour e erro 403 | OMEdI — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:56:53 +0000

[...] problema já corrigido. Se você tem um blog e também está com esse problema baixe a versão nova clicando aqui e, via FTP, substitua o antigo plugin pelo novo. O problema desaparece [...]

By: SoCal Websites » Bad Behavior Locked Up Websites

SoCal Websites » Bad Behavior Locked Up Websites — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:34:39 +0000

[...] the explanation comes from the Bad Behavior blog: Update: Some people have asked for more details on what exactly [...]

By: Volkan SOYY???T | Web Günlü?ü » Error 403 Bad Behavior Eklenti Sorunu

Volkan SOYY???T | Web Günlü?ü » Error 403 Bad Behavior Eklenti Sorunu — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:48:46 +0000

[...] Faydas?n? Gördü?üm Söylenemez. Nesye Arkada?lar Ba??naza Gelirse Eklentiyi Silin, Yada Buradan Güncellini Kullan?n Sorun Ortadan Kalk?yor. var eb_u=”wolqan”; Bu yaz? Sunday, 18 May [...]

By: Chiriquí Chatter » Blog Archive » Bad Behavior 2.0.11

Chiriquí Chatter » Blog Archive » Bad Behavior 2.0.11 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:15:44 +0000

[...] I use a WordPress plugin called Bad Behavior. I disabled it and made my post.Then I went to the Bad Behavior site, I saw that there was a new version and the reason was the answer to my problem. If you are a [...]

By: Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2.0.12

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2.0.12 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:45:47 +0000

[...] New in this release (since 2.0.11): [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:51:49 +0000

I just installed Bad Behavior and was going through the log file. How do I know if the plug-in mistakenly blocked a legitimate site? For example, I found http://help.yahoo.co.jp/help/jp/search/indexing/indexing-27.html referenced. Was this a valid indexing bot? I’ve also noticed references to my rss feed. Since I’m trying to get my site off the ground, I would hate to think I’ve blocked needed readers and indexers.

Thanks,
Ron

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:55:16 +0000

Imagine my surprise to be blocked on my own blog.
Checked my phpadmin, and sure enough there I was.
came back here, read your advice, downloaded updated plugin, renamed on my filemanager my badbehavior folder with XXs, uploaded update with Dreamweaver, and bam I was in. Haven’t checked my other wordpress blog yet
Thanks,
René

By: redboy

redboy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:44:06 +0000

thanks a lot ! it works well …

By: AlexC

AlexC — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:25:58 +0000

Hi guys,

I am the creator of original MJ12bot. I found this discussion while searching for “fake bot”. As mentioned above right now there are lots of instances of fake MJ12bot v1.0.8 – this is run by criminals who installed this software on unsuspecting user PCs using some kind of virus or rootkit. We have nothing to do with this practice and it is not our software that they install – basically they fake user-agent, any bot can do it, email spammers have been doing this since forever, so anyone who sees right now MJ12bot v1.0.8 can be 100% confident it is a fake.

This fake bot ignores robots.txt and also overloads sites – unlike our bot they did not put anytime into thinking through all these things, which is no wonder – it is the criminals who run this bot, we are here as victims as you are guys – we get bad publicity for absolutely no reason, perhaps this was the intention of those criminals, we might never know for sure.

What you can be certain however is that our legit bot supports robots.txt, especially Crawl-Delay parameter in it – it allows to slow the bot down and also we spread loads on servers to prevent overloading them. We have been doing this for over 3 years now, we do NOT overload sites – we have solved this ages ago, plus with Crawl-Delay you can control speed of crawling. So please, don’t consider us a bad bot – we obey your robots.txt commands, so if you wish to exclude us then feel free to do so – we respect your decisions and will obey them.

The fake bot however won’t – we publish as much as we know on our bots page, but I hope yet again you will appreciate that we are suffering really badly from these criminals who have nothing to do with us, yet because it is trivial to fake user-agent it reflects badly on us.

I hope you appreciate the situation, if anyone is in doubt then you can always contact me via email on our bots page – usually we respond within hours.

regards,

Alex Chudnovsky