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.

[Alfa1]

Can you please add a setting for the site contact address? Currently it just uses the 'webmaster email address', which by definition is the email address that sends out all vbulletin email. In my case thats about 60.000 emails per month. You can imagine the amount of return emails and spam that land in that email account. There is no way that email address can be used to contact the admin.

Please add a separate setting, so that I can add our support ticket url.

[Alfa1]

It would be extremely helpful to have a search function, to search for specific forum members or IPs. I frequently need to search the logs (800.000 records per week) to find and resolve an issue.

[Pebbled]

Hi Eric, you posted on this mod "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 tried installing vb_badbehavior-1.0.6 on a forum which is running 3.6.4 but received the following message:

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 3.6.4 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.7.0).

Any ideas what stopped the install, apart from the forum being an older version and are there any workarounds apart from upgrading to a newer version of vB.

[Alfa1]

In the product xml change:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.7.0" />
To:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" />

[Pebbled]

Thanks Alfa1, worked a treat, will be interesting to see how the spammers are now dealt with.

[Pebbled]

This might sound like a daft question, but how do I know that this mod is working properly because bots are still trying to register on the forum since I installed it.

In addition, and I realise this is optional, I've signed up with Project Honey Pot and have pasted the API key into the relevant box, so assume it is picking up spammer details from that database.

[Alfa1]

Review the log in admincp. That will show you what its doing.

[Lee G]

New more stable release of bb has been released today
http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2012/...-2-rc4-2-1-16/

Just a case of waiting on Eric making the changes here

New release sounds like a good one :up:

[Alfa1]

The latest stable release is 2.2.1 This is a major update. Please implement this:

http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2012/...ehavior-2-2-1/

[carsafety]

I have had a substantial loss in Google Adsense revenue since the start of January, even though my traffic is up nicely since the first of the year. I know there are many factors involved, but the timing is about right and this one is easy to test and I am going to disable the plugin for a week to see if it is related. Anyone else noticed a similar issue? Ads seem to be appearing, but perhaps they aren't as optimized as they had been due to something of Google's being blocked?