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Thanks Paul, used the dropdown box earlier to deactivate WPSF while doing another update, worked fine. After, re-activation could be done right in the Plugins panel on WPSF.
Thanks – appreciate the info!
Aptharsia, everything was reactivated earlier this morning. I have looked at and installed WSF on our test site. Your advice on setup of WSF with Wordfence and your thoughts on Wordfence Firewall parameters will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the advice, I will look into WSF also. Do you still use the Firewall in Wordfence along with WSF?
Thanks for the info. When I regain access I will uncheck that option.
Can you explain further -The “test” username and blank username was turned into my domain name-. They changed your domain name? Did they gain access to your site?I received over 515 notifications in less than 30 minutes from Wordfence. It seems shortly after that the Host shut the site down.
The attempts triggered Wordfence to send notification emails to me, as I had it set to do that. Unfortunately, there were hundreds of attempts using a blank user name each one from a different IP address. To Wordfence they were all different attempts. Wordfence did what it was supposed to and sent an email notification, hundreds of them. Our host then shut down the entire hosting package stating that it was due too many emails from a formmail script. That being the Wordfence security plugin. Although, the host does not help identify the problem in any way, nor did they give any warning. Site still down until they review my request to reactivate after deleting Wordfence. Only way I can access is by FTP. Short answer though, Wordfence does not have that capability.
Similar problem started late yesterday. Had Wordfence set to send email notifications on attempted login with invalid user name. Hundreds of attempts with same invalid user name, all from different IP’s. Wordfence sent the email notifications as it was set to do. Hundreds of them in a short period of time. Triggered Network Solutions to suspend the hosting package due to too many emails from FormMail script. Currently trying to get site reactivated, very slow and frustrating process with Network Solutions. Plugin did what it was supposed to, Network Solutions does not differentiate or notify prior. Ironic that a security protection ended up causing a problem. Would be better if hosting provider appreciated our use of the Wordfence security plug-in and differentiate, so as to allow an adjustment to the plugin options before shutting down a hosting package with many sites. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.