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]

You can check the BB logs in admincp and see if google adwords has been blocked. If it has, then you can whitelist the details in the whitelist file.

[viper357]

Originally Posted by 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/

Can we do this ourselves? I read this in the instructions of this mod:

== 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.

So can we just download the latest files from the bad behaviour website and upload them to our server? Or does the mod and it's xml file need to be updated as well?

[tpearl5]

Keep in mind that
2.2 RC3 = 2.1.15
2.2 RC4 = 2.1.16

The latest release is now 2.2.1

Yes, all you have to do to update is upload and overwrite the files in the bad-behavior directory with the new ones.

From what I can tell, there is not that much different code wise between the two versions.

[Dwarden]

when we had version 3.8.x of forum this 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

[viper357]

This mod looks like it's really bad for our sites for seo, I just randomly picked one of the user agent strings that it had blocked and according to this website - http://user-agent-string.info it was a googlebot, that's really not cool, or am I reading it wrong? Screenshot attached.

Attachment 136961

[Alfa1]

There are many bad bots disguising as Google bots.
None the less its possible that google gets blocked by bad behavior, because Google keeps using new IPs, and those need to be added to the whitelist.
This is why its vital that this addon keeps up to date and needs to run with the latest version of Bad Behavior. Else it will block valid users.

The latest stable version of Bad Behavior version is 2.2.2 while this addon runs 2.1.15

[alaska_av8r]

So what do we do, I am assuming we wait until the mod is upgraded to the latest version?

[Dwarden]

it would be nice if Eric brings it out of beta stage sometime soon too :0

[Eric]

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.

[Eric]

Just thought I would give an update..

I am working on 1.0.7 now, with the latest BB 2.2.3. I am trying to work in a cron script as well to auto-prune.

Also, source/tracker is now available here:

http://projects.secondversion.com/vb-bad-behavior/