BadBehavior is a spambot blocker. It uses a range of filters, like HTTP known headers, IP lists, user-agent strings, and robots.txt conformance to determine if the requesting host is a spambot or a harvester. Use it to get rid of automated spam comments, spam forum postings, or site scrapers. Read more at http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ This Joomla port comes as a system mambot (plugin), in an installable Joomla .zip file Visit our page to read the documentation and get the free download. Please take note, the mambot is intended for use with Joomla! 1.0.xx. To update your Joomla! sites, please remove the old bot, then download and install the latest version. After this step is completed access and reload your frontpage to make the "first run" message go away. [UPDATE] The mambot was updated to use Bad Behavior 2.0.15 code on Apr,23,2008 [UPDATE] The mambot was updated to use Bad Behavior 2.0.12 code on Jan,22,2008 [UPDATE] The mambot was updated to use Bad Behavior 2.0.11 code on Dec,6,2007