Blog downtime caused by Bad Behavior plugin
My apologies to all readers and visitors of Graphic design for life! While I was too busy last days, hosting company blocked my account for ’suspicious background activity’ which was caused by Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin (Bad Behavior should protect your site from spambots). I have to delete it immediately and give advice to everybody not use Bad Behavior until it will become 100% safe or change principles of its work.
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Your hosting company has no idea what they’re talking about.
Bad Behavior is perfectly safe and does not generate anything that could be called “suspicious background activity.”
I would need to know more information in order to determine if Bad Behavior was the real cause of the problem, or if it was your hosting company, or a denial of service attack launched against your site, or some other problem.
But since you didn’t contact me, I couldn’t help you.
Well, I was really shocked that I can’t access my blog and this situation was going for 3 days as I knew now from stat. I thought my blog was hacked! My hosting company told me that some of my scripts made ’suspicious background activity’ (their words) and they blocked my account because of it.
Since I don’t use any potential dangerous plugins or scripts and had no problems before installing Bad Behavior I thought it was your plugin.
It’s a pity if I’m wrong…
Just wanted to see if this was ever resolved (if you contacted the plugin author). I just instituted this on a few blogs and saw this in google. Made me nervous at first, but seems there is probably more to this.
I don’t know maybe plugin author fixed this issue but I’ve never had such problems after I stopped using this plugin. I don’t think the plugin is bad by itself but possible problems scared me much.