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Comment on Please moderate: “”. WTF? by Sanjida Shaheed

Sanjida Shaheed — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:18:08 +0000

go to options page. there you can turn off the feature. if you have further questions, feel free to drop a line at my blog.

all the best!

Comment on Please moderate: “”. WTF? by Sy Ali

Sy Ali — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:47:44 +0000

Have you contacted the wordpress developers to report it? It sounds like a bug which is being abused by a spammer..

Comment on Please moderate: “”. WTF? by boobie

boobie — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:49:54 +0000

same problem here with 2.0.3 and 2.2

Comment on Please moderate: “”. WTF? by adam

adam — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:07:38 +0000

is it a comment on an attachment page?

Comment on Bad Behavior Blackhole Update by Bad Behavior 檢查 Blacklist IP @ 天佑的自由天地

Bad Behavior 檢查 Blacklist IP @ 天佑的自由天地 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:36:09 +0000

[...] 作者 Michael Hampton 亦知道有機會出現這個問題，因為那些 blacklist 並不是由他 maintain 的，所以他再次提出 Bad Behavior Blackhole project，但因為時間及經濟問題所以停止開發。 [...]

Comment on Bad Behavior 2.0.6 by Bad Behavior 檢查 Blacklist IP @ 天佑的自由天地

Bad Behavior 檢查 Blacklist IP @ 天佑的自由天地 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:17:43 +0000

[...] 由 Bad Behavior 2.0.6 開始，會將留言者的 IP address 和一些 spam blacklist 網站的 blacklist IP 作出對照，如發現 IP address 是在 blacklist 內，便會禁止所有 access。 [...]

Comment on GoDaddy sucks by Evan

Evan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:36:04 +0000

GoDaddy’s SPAM problem is caused by their dependency on RBLs. Spamhaus.org is not very reliable. My ISP (Cox) uses filtering software that is not based on RBLs and it is very accurate (IMHO). Their IPO failed failed because Bob Parsons refused to make corrections that the venture capital company required (mainly the SPAM, unreliable hosting, and domain forwarding problems). I’ll give Bob credit, his spin on the failed IPO was cleaver. B.S., but cleaver.

Comment on Bad Behavior 2.1 and 3.0 Roadmap by Rick Beckman

Rick Beckman — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:45:40 +0000

Having two separate packages is interesting; would it then be possible to download the core and place it in /home/ while downloading appropriate wrapper packages to place in /home/domain1.com/, /home/domain2.com/ and so on? That would further simplify updating, I think, while actually helping to reduce complexity for the user (update the core once fixes several, perhaps dozens, of domains at one time).

Comment on Bad Behavior Blackhole Update by Neurophyre

Neurophyre — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:05:37 +0000

I’d also like to see, as I stated elsewhere, a ‘relaxed’ mode that shuts off blacklist checks.

For the Blackhole project, one thing I’d urge is some granularity in reporting. If a host is blackholed for spamming blogs it should report as such, same with wikis, etc., maybe by returning a specific IPs made up of a bitmask with the bit set for each type of Bad Behavior install that reported the offending host.

The reason I suggest this is because trojaned hosts which are spamming blogs may well not be spamming wikis, and so we may not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and block somebody who’s been trojaned and is spamming some other medium than the one the human using the compromised machine is trying to post on.

Yes, it’s extra work, but coming from the wiki world, I’m really loathe to lose good edits from compromised machines.

Comment on Bad Behavior 2.1 and 3.0 Roadmap by Neurophyre

Neurophyre — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:25:50 +0000

Okay, even weirder is you posted this on August 5 and Livejournal just snarfed it up now so that I saw it after I finished writing the initial MediaWiki thing.

Anyway, what I’d like to see for the future roadmap is either finer granularity of control over what checks BB uses, or a ‘relaxed’ mode to complement ‘strict’ and ‘normal.’ Namely, ‘relaxed’ would probably avoid DNSBLs and stick to other forms of analysis.

Comment on Bad Behavior 2.1 and 3.0 Roadmap by Neurophyre

Neurophyre — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:47:08 +0000

It’s funny you posted this now, because after our e-mail exchange earlier I spent half the night painfully extracting enough information on MediaWiki extension development to write a basic add-on to Bad Behavior 2.0.6 which displays log entries in a human-readable special page. I’m calling it Bad Behavior 2 Extended, since it’s likely I’ll try to add in some additional useful stuff in the future.

Interested MediaWiki users should check my post about it at http://neurophyre.livejournal.com/420286.html which also contains a handy link to my 5-step guide to blocking spam in MediaWiki. I’ve not had a SINGLE successful linkspam insertion on http://www.umasswiki.com/ in 6 months or more, and it’s well-publicized. Bad Behavior has been an important part of that success.

Incidentally, I look forward to testing BB2 on MediaWiki 1.8.0 which came out today. I should have results by this weekend, and I’ve added more information to the spurious whitespace bug on their Bugzilla.

Comment on GoDaddy sucks by Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:23:19 +0000

I would like to add some information based upon my own experience with GoDaddy.com and the email portion of their hosting. Their hosting service is a whole issue unto itself. Since moving my web site to them earlier this year, legitimate received emails have dropped by well over 50 percent. I have had a webmaster that tried to email me but was blocked. When he tried to learn why, GoDaddy told them that there were foreign characters being used. There were none. Many other emails from people were blocked for no reason. The scary thing is not knowing or hearing from people who tried to contact me but assumed that I was not answering them. I’ve tried many times to find out why from GoDaddy but have often been given the bull line that it is my ISP’s doing. A few tech people have at least honestly admitted that GoDaddy blocks email from any domain or IP address that a SPAM email has come from. That is, from the less known domains or IPs. The larger ones such as Yahoo or hotmail are allowed. The problem is, for business people such as myself, most of my customers use domains hosted with smaller regional hosts. GoDaddy’s setup ends up blocking a large portion of legitimate emails from my client base yet allow the real SPAM to get through. If they really gave a damn, they would revise their policy.

Comment on GoDaddy sucks by Nina

Nina — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:25:56 +0000

I actually host all my sites at godaddy.com and have never had any problem with any of them. No problems with FTP, no problems with their control panels, no problems with forwarding, nothing. I’ve never had to use customer service. I like the range of scripts/addons they supply even with their cheapest hosting plan. I like how easy it is to install them, and work with them. Their free hosting does suck (tried it for about 10 minutes) but their paid hosting is just fine for me.

Now, I’m sure I’m not the most sophisticated user out there. But I’ve been designing sites since 1995, and I’ve had quite a few truly crappy experiences, so I can say with great sincerity that I am completely happy with godaddy. BTW, I live in Canada, and am NOT in any way affiliated with the company …

Comment on Bad Behavior 2 by PlagiarismToday » Five Essential Wordpress Content Protection Plugins

PlagiarismToday » Five Essential Wordpress Content Protection Plugins — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:13:27 +0000

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Comment on Bad Behavior 2.0.6 by César de Tassis Filho

César de Tassis Filho — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:25:42 +0000

Hi…
Can I change the name of the cookie “bb2_screener_”?
If yes, where?
Thanks in advance.