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Bad Behaviour spambot mod? Or a honeypot system?
From the Homelandstupidity site "Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however. Bad Behavior is available for several PHP-based software packages, and also can be integrated in seconds into any PHP script."
Is this something that might be useful for vBulletin? Anyone want to take a stab at coding a mod for this or maybe the Project Honeypot system? |
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I'd also love to see this ported to VBulletin. Just have to clarify for those that it's possible to do this without violating your VB license. From Michael at Bad Behavior:
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I found this guide yesterday and followed the instructions to successfully implement Project Honeypot's HTTP BL for my vBulletin site: http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...http-bl-22790/
Make sure you register at Project Honeypot to get your own access key. |
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Thanks for the link SemperFi! :up:
For me, I was able to get Bad Behavior running to a certain extent on my VB install. They provide a small bit of direction on this page: http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/d...porting-guide/ So if you wanted to run it in a degraded mode (no logging), one can simply upload the files onto the site root, then create a new plugin with these settings: Hook Location: global_start Plugin PHP Code: require_once ("../bad-behavior-generic.php"); Again, there's no logging, but I've had great success with mine. Spambot registrations are down to a trickle, if not nearly zero. There's also instructions in the Porting Guide link above for those that want a full install and know how to create the appropriate hooks. |
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Thanks for the heads up. Is there a significant difference between Bad Behavior and Project Honeypot? My understanding is that Bad Behaviour is a Project Honeypot implementation but I'm uncertain that this is so.
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The BB developer definitely participates in the HoneyPot effort, but I think the approach is only part of his whole (and IMHO more thorough) implementation. He suggests running HoneyPot in this link below, so I might just run both to cover all the bases:
http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2...ot-and-httpbl/ However, since implementing BB, it's very rare I get spam comments these days since much of the bots are stopped at the door. So not entirely sure how much I would be contributing to the HP effort. I'd say BB is a must, and HP is optional. At least in my limited experience. |
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