Integration with vBulletin - vB Bad Behavior

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What is vB Bad Behavior?
This is an integration of the Bad Behavior software with vBulletin.

What is Bad Behavior?
Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site's load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

Visit http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ for more.

Features
For more information on the features of Bad Behavior (and subsequently this mod) please go to Bad Behavior's site:

http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/documentation/benefits/

For features related to the mod itself, please take a look at the screenshots.

This mod should work with the entire 3.x series (well, beginning with 3.5), but it's only been tested on 3.8.x. I'm not sure if this works on vB 4.x yet, as I've not tested it - but if you try it out, let me know!

Installation
1. Extract the contents of the zip file.
2. Upload the contents of the `upload` folder to your forum root.
3. Enter your AdminCP and go to Plugins & Products > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]
4. Import the product using the `product-vb_badbehavior.xml` file.
5. Configure the mod in AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> vB Bad Behavior Options

Upgrading

vB Bad Behavior
In many cases, all you'll need to do to upgrade is follow the installation instructions above.

The only difference, will be you'll need to allow the files to overwrite. Also, when re-importing the product file, you'll need to set "Allow Overwrite" to "Yes".

Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior's files are at `/includes/bad-behavior/`. If you wish to update manually go to:

http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/

And download the latest development version. Extract the zip, and upload the contents of `bad-behavior` to `/includes/bad-behavior/` allowing the files to overwrite.

Versions
The current version of Bad Behavior this mod is using is: v2.2.14
The current version of Bad Behavior (development) is: v2.2.14

Changelog
Version 1.0.13, 04/23/2013

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.14

Version 1.0.12, 12/21/2012 -- Released: 02/05/2013

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.13
• Added some more ranges to whitelist.ini

Version 1.0.10, 09/09/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.10

Version 1.0.9, 06/17/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.7

Version 1.0.8, 06/12/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.6
• New Setting: EU Cookie

Version 1.0.7, 05/04/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.3
• Cron/Scheduled Task for automatic log pruning added.

Version 1.0.6, 01/04/2012

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.1.15

Version 1.0.5, 05/26/2011

• Added option for bypassing users/members.
• If the visitor is a user, and is in usergroup 5, 6, or 7 (admin/mod/super mod) - Bad Behavior is bypassed.
• Modified bad-behavior core to check for Google Web Preview
  • file edited: /includes/bad-behavior/core.inc.php
• Added a link beside the IP address in the log for WhoIs.

Version 1.0.4, 04/28/2011

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.1.13 (fixes search engine block issues)
• Added Paypal/Paypal IPN IP address to the whitelist.
• Added payment gateway file names to the whitelist.

Version 1.0.3, 04/21/2011

• Fix #1: Pruning log doesn't work.
• Fix #3: POST more than two days after GET (added support for BB's javascript)
• Fix #5: Cannot modify header information error (suppressed error in BB's function)
• Implemented #6: Filter per key (new admincp option to list keys not to be shown in log)
• Implemented #9: Show link to member profile (if userid is found in headers, link to profile)

Version 1.0.2, 04/10/2011

• Updated /includes/functions_vb_badbehavior.php to:
  • disable Reverse Proxy if Reverse Proxy Addresses are empty
  • distinguish SQL queries using "SET", for example: SET @@session.wait_timeout = 90 - which is used by BB
  • set "offsite_forms" to false by default, as it's not really needed in vB IMHO, and it can cause problems with certain setups
  • cleaned up the bb2_read_settings() function and fixed a typo in one of the vbulletin options calls
• Updated /includes/whitelist.ini to include the following GOOGLE ranges:
  • 74.125.0.0/16
  • 216.239.32.0/19
  • 209.85.128.0/17
  • 66.102.0.0/20
• Updated /admincp/vb_badbehavior.php
  • Log pruning was pruning all logs, despite what was entered for number of days

Version 1.0.1, 04/06/2011

• Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.1.12
• Changed files:
  • /includes/bad-behavior/core.inc.php
  • /includes/bad-behavior/searchengine.inc.php
• "Verbose" admin option now set to "No" by default.

Version 1.0.0, 04/05/2011

• Initial release.

Screenshots
Screenshots can now be seen at: http://www.secondversion.com/images/vb/vb_badbehavior/

I was running out of room for attachments here on vB.org


Development

https://github.com/ericsizemore/vb_b...ree/master/vb3


Only those who "Mark As Installed" will receive support for this modification.

[Lee G]

Are the logs set to clear every 7 or 30 days?
Im showing 87,310 total log entries at present
But I do have a lot more user agents being banned than the standard list
Thats a lot of morons with wasted bandwidth trying to hit and scrape

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Lee G

Are the logs set to clear every 7 or 30 days?
Im showing 87,310 total log entries at present
But I do have a lot more user agents being banned than the standard list
Thats a lot of morons with wasted bandwidth trying to hit and scrape

Within BB core, it is hard-coded to prune every 7 days. I have never actually tested to see if it does that though, to be honest.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by viper357

Does this mod work ok with Tapatalk?

I have no way to test Tapatalk unfortunately, so I do not know.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Eric, from my point of view a post count check would be great as, like all forums running this, there will have been many that signed up a long time ago that are bots....etc, so i'd like to say "Is Member AND Has PostCount >...."

Originally Posted by Alfa1

For me the days registered option is fine.

I will leave the days registered option, but I may add the post count option as well and have a way to enable or disable it.

[Lee G]

Originally Posted by viper357

Does this mod work ok with Tapatalk?

Try accessing my forum with tapatalk to see if it works
I dont use a mobile to access mine, but it is installed on there
Link to the forum is in my signature

[viper357]

Originally Posted by Lee G

Try accessing my forum with tapatalk to see if it works
I dont use a mobile to access mine, but it is installed on there
Link to the forum is in my signature

Nope, it says "This forum appears to have deactivated tapatalk".
I just enabled this mod and within 5 minutes I noticed in the logs what appears to be blackberry users logging on with Tapatalk were being blocked, so I've disabled it again as I have a large amount of users that access my forums via Tapatalk.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by viper357

Nope, it says "This forum appears to have deactivated tapatalk".
I just enabled this mod and within 5 minutes I noticed in the logs what appears to be blackberry users logging on with Tapatalk were being blocked, so I've disabled it again as I have a large amount of users that access my forums via Tapatalk.

Would you mind providing me with user agent strings, etc for those users? If so, I may be able to create a whitelist for Tapatalk/mobile phones/etc

[viper357]

"user agent strings" - Please excuse me being an idiot here but I'm assuming this is the column in the logs that says User Agent? If so, they are all blank.

I can give you the info from the headers column, if that will help? I really don't know what most of this all means.

These first two are accessing the forum via Tapatalk, the "mobiquo" is the Tapatalk directory/mod.

POST /mobiquo/mobiquo.php HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 267
Host: www.marineaquariumsa.com
Cache-Control: max-age=259200
Via: BISB_3.5.1.76, 1.1 pmds152.bisb2.blackberry:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)

POST /mobiquo/mobiquo.php HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 267
Host: www.marineaquariumsa.com
Cache-Control: max-age=259200
Via: BISB_3.5.1.76, 1.1 pmds252.bisb2.blackberry:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)

This one looked like normal forum access but also says blackberry.

GET /showthread.php?p=470371#post470371/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=219 HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Host: www.marineaquariumsa.com
Cache-Control: max-age=259200
Via: BISB_3.5.1.71, 1.1 pmds196.bisb4.blackberry:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)

[BirdOPrey5]

I know tapatalk does something fishy with the user agent- it's caused issues with other security mods before.

[bulbasnore]

Tapatalk is big for us. That is definitely something to continue pursuing.