@acstudent is there any hard evidence of your statement or is it your opinion?
Thanks again for your input!
]]>my understanding is that IIS does not utilise .htaccess file so is there any advantage of this plugin on IIS server?
What Pareto Security does as a primary task is to detect attacks against the PHP code in WordPress and prevent these attacks from executing. Secondly it can add the ip address of the attacker to .htaccess block list thus frustrating a targeted attack.
So its principle function is where it is most useful. Any security plugin should at its core do the same regardless of whether it adds the attackers IP address to a black list or not.
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