Wordfence comparison in your description.

  • Hi.

    You mention in your description that Wordfence is a ‘conventional’ ip blocker and won’t block botnets. We do. Hack attempts are reported to our real-time server, aggregated and fed back to all sites running Wordfence. We actually display this graphically at https://www.wordfence.com on the real-time map and graph. We’ve had this feature for some time now. See the option at the bottom of Wordfence options “participate in real-time security network”.

    No hard feelings – just a heads up.

    Regards,

    Mark Maunder
    Wordfence creator.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/botnet-attack-blocker/

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  • I just received an email from Wordfence which locked out a user for too many login attempts. It was sent to the default 20 attempts and I changed it to 6 attempts.

    I was wondering why Botnet Attack Blocker did not stop the attempts to login. Botnet Attack Blocker was set to 4 login failures within five minutes of each other and set to lockout for one hour.

    Plugin Author cheesefather

    (@cheesefather)

    @mark – sorry, last time I used Wordfence (great piece of software by the way) that didn’t exist, I’ll update the description for the next release.

    @phil – do you have access to the server logs? It’s possible that the attempts were spread out and not within 5 mins of each other. Have you tested it manually to check everything is working okay? Thanks.

    I didn’t check the server logs and I don’t know if they are still available. However, that was the only time I saw that happen with any of my sites. I’m not really concerned about it.

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