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https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/
was bad-behavior.ioerror.us
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Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which automatically blocks harvesters, spam bots, and other funky stuff BEFORE they can even see the content of the website.

• It requires browser identification before forms can be submitted.
• Forms will work with JavaScript disabled.

• Abandoned – Last updated 2019-10-22 – 2.2.24

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bad-behavior/

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• 2022-07-23 – I disabled it recently because it appears to be abandoned and it was causing problems with the Wayback Machine.
• 2020-01-14 – Fix the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• 2019-11-19 — Maybe Bad Behavior is doing something, so I’ll keep it going, but it’s certainly not preventing spam. Re-activating WP-SpamShield.
• 2019-11-18 – 2.2.24 on WordPress (version not recorded)

• 2019-11-18 – (version not recorded) on WordPress (version not recorded)

  • replaces WP-SpamShield

• 2007-04-23 – (version not recorded) on MediaWiki (version not recorded)

  • Newer versions keep on rocking.

• 2006-11-26 – 2.07 on MediaWiki (version not recorded)

  • Works great.

• 2006-07-16 – 2.02 on MediaWiki (version not recorded)

  • Works even better.

• 2006-06-05 – bad-behavior-2.0a4 on MediaWiki (version not recorded)

  • Tested and works fine.

Bad Behavior and MediaWiki ∞

(MediaWiki)

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220223052737/https://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/support/installation/mediawiki/

• MediaWiki Bad Behavior Extension — Works nicely. The 2006-12-17 version was in Spanish though. =/

Installing ∞

• Installing and using bad behavior on mediawiki

1) upload/unpack the archive to extensions/

2) Edit LocalSettings.php and append:

include( 'extensions/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-mediawiki.php' );

.. that’s it!

Your MediaWiki database will have a table called bad_behavior which houses the bad behavior logs. It won’t show up until something is blocked.

Bad Behaviour shows blank pages ∞

The 2.0.10 and 2.0.22 versions were tested and just show blank pages on MediaWiki. The solution is to add this:

require_once( "$IP/includes/DatabaseFunctions.php" );

.. to wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-mediawiki.php at the top, just underneath the initial <?php

Fix the Internet Archive Wayback Machine ∞

(The Internet Archive Wayback Machine)

whitelist settings ∞

I can’t get it working again..

2020-02-24 with Bad Behavior 2.2.24 on WordPress 5.9.1, with PHP 8.1.3

1. View logs

2. Whitelist settings

• For “IP Address”, add

  • *.archive.org
  • *.*.archive.org

• Add User Agent the single line:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36 (spoofing Safari)