Bad Behavior 2 Beta 1
Tags: wordpress, spam, plugins,
If you hate spam, I’m with you all the way. Thats why its good news all round to be able to report that Bad Behaviour 2 Beta 1 has now been released for download. Some of the changes include:
- Trackback spam is pretty much dead. If you see a trackback spam get past Bad Behavior, I want to know about it.
- Bad Behavior is stopping 99% or more of comment spam and an unknown amount of automated wiki vandalism. (I have no chicken to measure it.)
- A check which required waiting five seconds before submitting POST requests has been removed. While it showed some benefit in stopping spam, it was unduly interfering with legitimate activity.
- A check for misconfigured proxy servers has been disabled. While it blocked quite a bit of spam, it also blocks many corporate and government users, not to mention the entire country of Singapore. This appears to be a Microsoft ISA Server bug or misconfiguration, and when someone tells me how to fix it, this check will be re-enabled.
- Several additional checks for spam and malicious activity have been added.
- Database logging has been revamped, and the verbose option reinstated. When verbose is off, only blocked requests and some suspicious requests will be logged. On most requests, with verbose option off, Bad Behavior will make only one database query (to retrieve its settings).
- On WordPress, the administrative screen has been expanded. You can now turn verbose mode logging on or off from this screen.
- Once again, strangely enough it seems to be even faster than previous versions.
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