I’m not having problems with my own site, but I am having problems leaving comments on other sites. Hopefully the site owners will realize they have a problem and get the fix.

I had that problem last night. I downloaded the new version and all is fine now.

I got that note when trying to post a comment a while back. Glad to know it was indeed a false positive.

Apparently the guy who created BadBehavior was in the process of migrating his stuff to a different server and deleted what he thought was an old, unused database. Turns out it wasn’t unused, and its absence led to everyone being considered a spammer.

Which makes me wonder if that particular database was a list of known “good” IP addresses… and, if so, I would’ve preferred to know prior to installing BadBehavior that it was collecting that kind of info about me and readers here, ya know?

Oh thank you! I really thought there was something wrong with the computer (it is Vista and all so who knows?) and downloaded a different virus program thinking I really did have malicious software that hadn’t been caught. Who knew? Glad things are back on track!

I hate the way that error message implies it’s something on a commenter’s end causing the problem. I’ll have to poke around in the BadBehavior install and see if I can’t change that.

Glad to have you back, though!