Cripes..
First of all, I didn’t stick to my stance on not capitalizing, I’ve noticed. Oh well.
I’ve been getting quite a bit of spam in my shoutbox, which uses Wordspew from Jalenack. I was going to write a comment on Jalenack about it, to see if there was a good solution, but to my surprise, my question was already answered! Yes, exciting.
So, anyway.. Bad Behavior is a plugin for WordPress (and a number of other content management whateveryouwanttocallthems) that does some kind of voodoo magic, and blocks spam!
Bad Behavior was designed and built by watching actual spambots which harvested email addresses, posted comment spam, and used fake referrers. By logging their entire HTTP requests and comparing them to HTTP requests of legitimate users, it is possible to detect most spambots. Bad Behavior blocks spambots with a 412 error. It also has three configurable User-Agent lists for spambots and other malicious bots which actually identify themselves. Bad Behavior can use string matching or regular expression matching against a User-Agent.
Bad Behavior also will target bots which fail to obey robots.txt. At this time some of these bots are banned by User-Agent, though in the future Bad Behavior will detect them automatically.
Sounds pretty promising, so I’ve installed it here. From briefly reading their website, they still have a number of features in the works, planned for future releases.
Hopefully Bad Behavior along with Spam Poison will keep all those nasty spambots away from the black hole of negative content that is gonad.org.
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