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DRUPAL: How To Use BadBehavior 2.1x with Drupal 6.x

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that BadBehavior is one of my favorite Drupal modules.  Bad Behavior is a script that does a great job of blocking bots, hijacked PC’s and proxies which helps protect your site from spammers, scrapers and trolls. Using BadBehavior on your Drupal 6.x installation is a [...]

12 June 2010 at 11:20 - Comments

More On Proxies & Idiots

Alex posted this question on my post about how to block proxies: Wow…Your information has really helped me out! I host a site on Livejournal, so I don’t know if this will work, but even a hope is better than what’s going on now! By the way, I tried out the whois tool, and I had several [...]

30 January 2010 at 19:50 - Comments

Spam Prevention For Drupal

If your website gets traffic then it probably also gets spam – and since we get a lot of traffic we have had to deal with a lot of spam.  Over the years we have tried virtually every spam solution available for Drupal with the exception of pure-captcha spam solutions because they are so damned [...]

6 December 2009 at 18:52 - Comments

How We Block Proxies, Bots, Scrapers, Trolls & Assholes

As a website owner, you probably have at least a few good reasons to block bots and scrapers.  Scrapers steal your content and unruly bots can do anything from eating your bandwidth to trying to hack into your site. As a forum or community owner, you may also have reasons to block proxies.  Proxies are what [...]

22 August 2009 at 19:26 - Comments
Kirk (1 comments)
Hey Randy, Thanks a lot for the great and helpful article! I've been trying to combat some people using ...
27 June 10 at 22:51
Randy Brown (158 comments)
@Kirk.. there isnt really a good way to "test" Bad Behavior other than to look a the logs and look ...
28 June 10 at 07:07