its ok forgot to say fixed the problem

I found a crawler hitting my site called Whitevector. They are a company that monitors social media for companies to see what people are saying about them. They literally hit > 20,000 pages in a matter of 2 hours. Banned them as soon as I found their bot.

Im having an odd issue, Every time I download the latest version and extract it, there are no .xml files in it. What could I be doing wrong?

That's pretty vague. What size is the file you downloaded? What files are in it? What are you using to extract (try 7-zip)?

Im using winrar un unzip. It's about 170 kilo bytes.

The folder contains:


php files
bab behavior folder
read me
screenshots

That's the right size, but the wrong contents. Maybe you're swapping the file for another mod somewhere along the line?

Would you be kind enough to link me to the right one? Maybe I, using the wrong download from badbehavior.

I just grabbed the one in the first post to compare. vb_badbehavior_vb4-1.0.5.zip

Weird, that one worked. I was downloading a newer one from their main site.

I just noticed that I had 1.000.0000 entries in the log.
Please add a function to automatically prune the log after X days.

I would add this to your tracker, but your tracker is filled with spam.

Some stats I've collected over the past couple months by running queries on the log file. The log file has 780k records total.

Unique ip's blocked:
Sept: 12,571
Oct: 16,175

Unique ip's blocked from registering (hitting register.php):
Sept: 877
Oct: 1,211

Its a shame it looks like the integration has been abandoned.
There have been a couple of updates since the last one was released on here
http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2011/...-2-rc3-2-1-15/
It looks like the next stable version, should happen soon.

It's not abandoned, I'm just busy with school work. I have it updated, just need to test then release.

great to hear Eric!

For anyone using the mobile API I strongly recommend you add api.php to the whitelist. This was blocking some post calls to the API.

Do you know if this is on vB 3 as well? I know they made a mobile API for the 3.x series but don't have access to it.

I would imagine it would block the vb3 api as well since it works the same way.

Version 1.0.6, 01/04/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.1.15

It appears there are some conflicts with either vb 4.1.10 or with Firefox 10. Loading the page with this mod on = text only, no css.

Loading the page with the mod disabled, = fine.

There were no issues reported in any other browsers.
The mod is currently disabled on our site until we can pinpoint the issue.

I have no such issues with FF10
It must be related to vb4.1.10 then.

using this together with [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic - Spam Firewall stops forum spam https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248042
helped with nearly complete removal of spam problems

my only small wishes
+ adminCP statistics page which covers all types of violations and theirs amount (e.g. #2b021b1f : 65535 times)
+ public forum statistics similar to SOM (on bottom of main forum page)

also i think the automatic database prune / cleanup don't work properly/at all

my thanks to author

p.s. any reason this isn't listed inside Anti-Spam section of modifications? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisp...i-Spam+Options

This indeed belongs in the anti-spam section.

Yeah, something is going on with that. Every so often I'll see it running a LOT of DELETE and INSERT statements on the log records.

well since i installed this plugin it not correctly cleaned it once
be it 3.8.x version same as 4.x.x version ...

for 3.8.x i tried several workarounds w/o any success so i gave up
if needed manual sql wipe of the db entries must be done

make yourself a super admin and you will be able to do it from the admincp

what and where exactly You got in mind?

you can do this from the config file

Getting a whole lot of these one day a week:

DELETE FROM `vb_badbehavior` WHERE `date` < DATE_SUB('27-02-2012 22:22:40', INTERVAL 7 DAY)
INSERT INTO `vb_badbehavior` (`ip`, `date`, `request_method`, `request_uri`, `server_protocol`, `ht...

The inserts are building up because the vb_badbehavior table is locking.

make sure you are a super admin then you can prune when needed

Just to ask, can I just download newer versions of bad behavior (current is 2.2.2) and just upload bad-behavior directory in includes/bad-behavior directory on my server? Or there needs to be done something more?

EDIT: I mean, last bad behavior directory, as there are two named this way.

you would be best to wait for a update from the op. And yes he is very slow at doing the latest update as the version running now is very old

Cheers for that. I will have some fun installing this mod as there are some people on my forum who need this as they are troublemakers.

I have a full time job, and I am a full time student. It is a bit hard to update this as often as I would like. You can update manually using the download from Bad Behavior until I update the mod.

When you have time you can update it would be nice to see a update done as the one running is very very old I hope it does not take to long

Yes, of course, no problem with this. So, I just need to download files from Bad Behavior, and upload the lowest bad behavior directory in it corresponding place? That's all I need to do?

Consider to ask Michael (Bad Behavior Developer) for help. I'm sure he is very willing.

would be nice to see update for Bad Behaviour 2.2.3 (for these who are less skilled on manual updating)

You literally download the files from the bad behaviour site and upload them to your server...

i know, didn't said i need it ...

btw, I figured out this happens when the vb_badbehavior table is fairly large and something is continually hitting my site and being blocked by bad bahavour. The database can't keep up with the deletes and inserts when it has to go through 1 million + records several times a second. Keeping the log pruned (unfortunately a manual task) and adding this index seems to help a bit:

ALTER TABLE `vb_badbehavior`
ADD INDEX `date` (`date`)