Bad Behavior WordPress Plugin

April 28th, 2005

The Bad Behavior WordPress plugin has been a lifesaver. Between it and WordPress’ spam prevention measures, I find that I spend no time at all anymore deleting comment and trackback ping spam.

Bad Behavior was designed and built by watching actual spambots which harvested email addresses, posted comment spam, and used fake referrers. By logging their entire HTTP requests and comparing them to HTTP requests of legitimate users, it is possible to detect most spambots. Bad Behavior blocks spambots with a 412 error. It also has three configurable User-Agent lists for spambots and other malicious bots which actually identify themselves.

The plugin is of course just a PHP script, so even if you don’t use WordPress, you can integrate it into your site.

Posted by Brian Sweeting Filed in Blogging, Technology

2 Responses to “Bad Behavior WordPress Plugin”

  1. IO ERROR Says:
    April 29th, 2005 at 12:28 am

    Bad Behavior 1.0-rc3

    Security Update: All Bad Behavior users should update to 1.0-rc3 immediately to prevent malicious attacks on your database.
    I’ll skip the usual mumbo jumbo and skip right to the important parts:
    Fixed in this release:

    A security issue has be…

  2. jens Says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 8:12 am

    It seems that Bad Behavior will stop my SPAM-ING Problems for my comment script. I think I am gonne try it out. Thanks for the advice..
    Greets Jens ( http://www.isoliert.de/forums/ )