It seems this attack is nothing to do with our registration form. I have been Googling for weeks but to no avail. Any pointer would be greatly appreciated.
]]><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>BTW, people with the same issue… blocking by Country is at the server level. If you have WHM, check here: WHM Admin / cPHulk Brute Force Protection.</span>
So, all that being said… all I am asking is if this plug-in has any known issues working with other Security Plug-ins. Knowing now would potentially save me A LOT of heartache and lost business.
Thank you in Advance, “K”
]]>first of all: Thank you for such a helpful tool to minimize risks.
My question is:
Is there a way to use the Captcha-like page that is shown before you actually log in to the WP Dashboard with your credentials for one other page, too?
The background is as follows:
I’m planning to add a community/forum that does not use the internal WP registration, but it’s own. The registration however adds user accounts in WordPress, it’s just that it uses its own form and system for that.
To prevent spambots from bombarding the form and (ab-)using random mail addresses, I would like to call that Captcha-esque page that gets called before you can actually enter your credentials in the WP Login form (wp-login.php).
Best regards
Ronny.
I have 2 issues now.
Firstly, Anti-Crawler The functionality was disabled because SpamFireWall database is empty. It suggests me to come to ask for help…
Secondly, I am having registration spam, even I unclicked the “anyone can register” button.
Anyone can help, please?
Best regards
]]>Still, it seems to somehow block the form spam so far on the other website. Will have to wait and see.
]]>Finally found this plugin and set it up to be rather aggressive in limiting bot traffic. Set up the additional “Stop Forum Spam” and “Project Honeypot” services and tied them to this plugin (via the convenient web services page) and I had the first night of 0 bot registration attempts this site has seen in months. None of my other sites get hit by bots like this one (so, I think a member of the site somehow attracted some bots with a compromised account or system), and it had been driving me (and the owners of the site) nuts. I’d installed 3-4 other free versions of plugins meant to block bots and none of them made a dent in the registration attempts. This one has so far blocked them all. It took a little time to set it up and go through all of the options (and set up the outside resources for it) — but so worth it. And wonderful to see all the options it has for blocking bots in multiple ways, and tying to multiple outside resources that makes it even more powerful than its default settings and options.
I’ve never contributed to a plugin before — I just sent in a token amount to say thanks to Bryan for keeping this plugin up and running.
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