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]

Originally Posted by error10

As for the URL whitelisting, you don't REALLY want me to be able to cause whatever mayhem I want to just by visiting /mobiquo.php

You have got a point there. What would be the optimal approach to allow legitimate users to use Tapatalk?
BB blocks it by default.

[error10]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

You have got a point there. What would be the optimal approach to allow legitimate users to use Tapatalk?
BB blocks it by default.

I wish somebody had told me that sooner! Can you send me a log entry to look at, so I can fix the core (or alternately yell at Tapatalk for screwing something up on their end)?

[Alfa1]

This thread has a lot of discussion on tapatalk issues. Log entries are posted here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...lk#post2200933

Also see: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...lk#post2200939

See this sticky on tapatalk support forum: http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...unctions.3042/
http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...ru-forum.5995/
http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...um-error.3274/

[error10]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

This thread has a lot of discussion on tapatalk issues. Log entries are posted here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...lk#post2200933

Also see: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...lk#post2200939

See this sticky on tapatalk support forum: http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...unctions.3042/
http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...ru-forum.5995/
http://support.tapatalk.com/threads/...um-error.3274/

This is defnitely Tapatalk's fault. They didn't send a User-Agent string when POSTing, which almost always indicates malicious behavior. In addition, in my testing with Tapatalk for Android, it sent several different user-agent strings (and one was obviously fake) when performing GET requests. This is something Tapatalk really needs to fix, and should have fixed long ago. It started to make me wonder if maybe spammers wrote Tapatalk...

Until Tapatalk fixes their apps, whitelisting the URL is probably the best you can do.

[nick!]

I tried to install the plugin on 3.6.8 and said I need 3.7 or something. I downloaded the 1.0.9 should I be using a different version for 3.6.8? Thanks for help.

[Eric]

Now on GitHub!

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

What I was using before didn't go well, so, moved to Git/GitHub. Feel free to create issues there, fork, do whatever!

[Eric]

D'oh! Almost forgot to update the thread.

Updated:

Version 1.0.10, 09/09/2012

- Bad Behavior upgraded to 2.2.10

[Alfa1]

Please add the following to whitelist.ini to resolve a conflict with Tapatalk:
useragent[] = "Tapatalk/2.0.0 (Tapatalk)"

[Eslob]

Great Addon ,,, thanks for updating it

[carsafety]

Thanks for the update. This was in logs, I think prior to the update:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting ')' in /public_html/includes/functions_vb_badbehavior.php on line 284