Version: 4.x, by SemperFideles
Developer Last Online: Jun 2018
Category: Integration with vBulletin -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 01-19-2010
Last Update: 01-07-2011
Installs: 23
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This is a simple integration of the Bad Behavior Script. 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.
I use this in conjunction with the Project Honeypot addon and the vBStopForumSpam addon. The three ought to be considered a layered defense at reducing spam and other unwanted traffic to your site that simply consumes resources.
*NOTE: The Project Honeypot addon has now added Bad Behavior implementation, which makes this implementation superfluous if you are using that plugin. Do not install if you have the latest version of the Project Honeypot.
I don't want to take credit for implementation as the idea originated with this thread
This is a simple implementation of the script and it will work but it will not provide any logging. I'll leave it to others who know more about how to improve this to enable logging.
Installation instructions:
1. Extract the contents of the zip file and upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum root. (Note: Latest stable version of bad behaviour can always be found here
2. Install Product.
Updates:
01/21/2010: Created Product file in lieu of plugin code to make it easier to install/uninstall.
01/22/2010: Added Bad Behaviour files for convenience.
01/24/2010: Simplified installation and included the php code within the plugin for the generic implementation of Bad Behavior per simonhind's suggestion below.
01/09/2011: Updated BadBeheavior.zip and included bad-behaviour files to 2.0.39
Added BadBehavior2.1.8.zip to include 2.1.8 developmental version
Warning: require_once(bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xsquid/public_html/forum/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10
I can't even get in my admin panel, is this a joke??????
Do any big boards or high traffic boards run this? If yes, was any negative performance hit experienced?
I know that a lot of high traffic PHP sites use this. It's been used on Wordpress for quite some time and I've had it running on several of my own, which is why I implemented this for my board. My own board gets about 5000 hits a day but that's not a big board per se. I can tell you that it doesn't slow down my board but does seem to reduce load.
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Originally Posted by chingon
wtf, my forum is gone and I get this:
Warning: require_once(bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xsquid/public_html/forum/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10
I can't even get in my admin panel, is this a joke??????
It is not a joke. I used the same product file to install my own instance and I have never had this problem.
I get viewing directory contents not permitted on the forum and the above trying to get into the admincp, how can i get rid of this?
Is it possible that you have a CHMOD problem for a folder or files? I honestly don't know what is causing your problem because I have never experienced it.
Warning: require_once(bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10
Did you upload the directory contents in the zip file into your forum root? The zip file unzips into a bad-behaviour folder and you should upload that into your forum root.
The "no such file" seems pretty obvious that it cannot even find the file. Do you have a bad-behaviour-generic.php file within a bad-behaviour folder on your forum root?
After installation, do we need to edit any settings?
There are no "settings" for this. This is the generic implementation of Bad-Behaviour. You may want to ask the script developer more about how his script works. My assumption on the above is that the script protects activity that is occuring within PHP activity and cached content is often put into html files that the script would not be able to detect.
Does this script protect against download tools like httrack? That would save a lot of bandwidth.
I recommend you direct such questions to the script developer. The only thing I have done is provide a way for your board to call the functions that the script provides. It worked for me and the script has been very successful at blocking spam attempts on Wordpress sites that I run. I make no claims to having the exhaustive understanding of what the script does or does not do nor what the script developer has in mind for the future of the script.
I simply provided a way to implement the generic mode of the script as the script developer describes on his site.
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01-22-2010, 02:18 PM
