Hidden Folders and files Alert

The general idea is to alert someone about a possible problem ASAP. Logically this should only happen once or very, very rarely. Since the ramifications could be as bad as the site is hacked then someone should be alerted about that ASAP. So since this check should be an “ASAP” type of check then making it a long term check would defeat the intended purpose/usage of alerting someone immediately about a potential problem. Logically someone would only have to create a folder or file whitelist/ignore rule once or maybe down the road in the future once. So setting the default email alert to 60 minutes may be more convenient to a user, but it decreases the value of the HPF check itself to the point of pretty much negating it’s value altogether. ??

I understand the alert, I want the alert, but I want it once, or once every x days. The problem is when I have the cron at 15 minutes I get an alert for the same file every 15 minutes.

If the file safe to ignore/whitelist then use the Ignore Hidden Plugin Folders & Files option: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/hidden-folders-files-alert-on-s2member-files?replies=6 Email alerts will no longer be sent for that file.

As i stated in the first post people are not usually immediately able to take care of tbe issues, so if i am at work i can get as many as 40 emails for each item found. I could be traveling or on vacation or otherwise not able to get to a computer while i am getting many multiple messages for the same thing. It isnt a matter of just adding them to the list if you dont have a means to either check the item or go into the admin to ignore it. I ended up having to kill the cron job since i had no access to ftp to check the files.

Hmm interesting scenario. Ok we will see if we can figure out something for this type of scenario that does not negate HPF altogether. How did you kill the cron job? Maybe however you did that is the method we could use in this type of scenario.

I do have access to wordpress at work, so i did it properly in the admin area. A lot people have a lot stricter Internet access rules than i do, and mine are strict and constantly getting stricter. I didnt have access to ftp to check the two items that i needed to check.

I still havent had time to actually check the files, i might get a chance to later on today or tomorrow.

Ok got it. We will do some brainstorming on this and see if we can figure something out for this particular scenario.

One thing that is most likely going to be added is a way to directly download or view the file or folder that was detected since a lot of folks get stuck at using FTP.

A new Feature/Option Request Task has been scheduled to look into this further. The thread has been resolved.

Thread Start Date: 6-27-2016
Thread Resolved/Current Date: 6-28-2016
Comments: Reference Scheduled Task #040657

It was decided that the only logical additional option would be to add a once daily check to the list of HPF Cron Check Frequency option values. That would still require that someone was able to login to their WordPress site to set this option value. We were unable to think of any other way of doing anything differently than the current available options and without having to login to the WordPress site. This new option value will be added in BPS .54.

Run Check Every 15 Minutes
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Run Check Once Daily

And the file contents will be viewable/displayed in the HPF Alert so that someone can post the file contents if they would like us to check the file contents.