As I have written on this blog, the Akismet anti-spam that is included with Wordpress software is quite good. But, apparently not good enough. There are invasive automated schemes now that find a way past Akismet to show up on a blog with disgusting comments.

Bad Behavior is a plugin by Michael Hampton for Wordpress that, according to the documentation, “complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

“Bad Behavior also transcends other link spam solutions by working in a completely different, unique way. Instead of merely looking at the content of potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the software the spammer is using. In this way, Bad Behavior can stop spam attacks even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before.

“Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency.”

I recommend it.

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