Does your plugin work with Siteground and Siteground Optimiser plugin?
I see you don’t support cache with your plugin or does it cause issues?
My client is using Siteground for hosting and their cache Siteground Optimiser plugin. So hopefully it works OK.
The issue we are having is that in the Abandoned cart we are getting quite a few items in here that are NOT actual people, the plugin people suggested your plugin to reduce the spam bots adding items to the cart and producing false reports in the Abandoned Cart area.
Could you possibly confirm whether this might be OK to work?
ALSO could you confirm that your plugin could be used and work well for sites that have been compromised and cleaned up? I’m thinking that as I’m currently using Wordfence for sites that have been affected after cleanup, we keep an eye on attempts to the site as some look like bots trying to access certain files in the backend of a wordpress website at random. So I was thinking that this plugin would be good to put those BAD bots into cyberspace the black hole! Please advise if this is when most people would find your plugin handy for that ?
Thanks
Kristin
]]>This way you can easily identify bad IPs or IP ranges and ban them in your firewall.
I’ve had many IPs and IP ranges that have attacked and scraped my website every day, that caused high CPU usage on my server,
now CPU usage is reducing significantly , although I’m still fighting with these bots, but now I can see what is going on and act fast.
Also I can monitor what and when agents like Google or Bing are crawling my pages.
Thanks for the plugin and I hope you will make more interesting features in the future, I have some ideas that I can share.
]]>Can I use the plugin Blackhole for Bad Bots (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/blackhole-bad-bots/) to keep my stats clean?
]]>Therefore: does Blackhole for Bad Bots help to keep my stats clean?
]]>A long time ago I had thought about a “central list” from different Bad-Bot installations.
I use several PHP-based installations and had long ago made me an extension of your WP-plugin, so that a logfile is also written to the file system (as with the PHP variant), but no longer have the WEB and no backup of the script…
Since I host a few dozen WordPress sites on my own server and have now familiarized myself with Fail2Ban a bit further, I am now getting to start again.
The only thing I’m really inexperienced with is RegEx and I’m not getting anywhere…. therefore times an off-topic question about it, but at the same time also the renewed suggestion to you, possibly to support the future something?
The basic idea: BadBots writes logfiles and these are evaluated by Fail2Ban and then take effect on the entire server – either immediately or, for example, when at x-webs occur.
And of course: The idea to keep a central “blacklist” for all plugin users and offer it for import as with other tools would then be further simplified.
My action jail:
[wp-badbots]
enabled = true
filter = wp-badbots
action = logfile[name="wp-badbots"]
sendmail[name="badbots", sendername="fail2ban badbots", dest="[email protected]"]
logpath = /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/*/blackhole.dat
maxretry = 1The blackhole.dat is the log from the php-based blackhole at this moment. The log looks like this:
91.64.137.161 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Sunday, May 3rd 2020 @ 12:35:54 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
85.25.236.90 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Sunday, May 3rd 2020 @ 18:50:37 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux Core i7-4980HQ; de; rv:32.0; compatible; JobboerseBot; https://www.jobboerse.com/bot.htm) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
136.243.36.68 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Monday, May 4th 2020 @ 01:13:36 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; vebidoobot/1.0; +https://blog.vebidoo.de/vebidoobot/)
23.252.241.34 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Monday, May 4th 2020 @ 16:24:58 - Dispatch/0.11.3
34.234.54.252 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Monday, May 4th 2020 @ 17:48:16 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.75 Safari/537.36 (compatible; SMTBot/1.0; +https://www.similartech.com/smtbot)
161.35.66.233 - GET - HTTP/1.1 - Monday, May 4th 2020 @ 21:46:57 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.517 Safari/537.36My jail filter, but it does not work 
[Definition]
failregex = ^<HOST> .* GET
ignoreregex = As I said, something off-toppic, but if you have mood, I am very interested in the implementation, write you then gladly by PM.
CU
]]>WHY OH WHY are you so desperate to market Stop Bad Bots to everyone? Annoying and distracting red buttons to the most stupid stunt to far, the POP-UP video. Yes, that’s right, a video that pops-up and immediately annoys people.
Bill, you need to stop all this awful marketing and concentrate on offering a great product which people value more than terrible stunts to market in the admin section. If the product is good then people will pay for it.
I, for one, will delete this plugin very soon if the awful marketing intrusions carry on. I am sure many others will feel the same.
Thank you
]]>If not, it would be great if it did — just like iThemes Security (free and pro).
Thank you!
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