Title: Settings keep changing.
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Settings keep changing.

 *  [Shar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharlarisse/)
 * (@sharlarisse)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-keep-changing/)
 * I’ve been successfully using this wonderful plugin for about a month.
 * Because of a very incessant hacker, I recently changed the settings to block 
   out logins for 24 hours.
 * That worked for only a few days.
 * This morning, I found the settings had been changed to block out for just 5 minutes.
   When I tried to change it back to 24 hours, I got the message “Update failed.”
 * I solve this by deleting the plugin and re-installing it, but it happened again.
   This is the case on several of my sites.
 * Why does this keep happening? Why do settings keep going back to the original
   ones?
 *  Does this mean a hacker can corrupt the plugin or is this an unstable plugin?
 * (BTW, Wordfence didn’t indicate the file was changed at all).
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 * Last reply from: [Shar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharlarisse/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-keep-changing/)
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