Locked me out of my site
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Had bought the full plugin and had it on my site for a year. Only reason I did was because I had had a major security scare and was panicked into buying a “serious” security plugin.
Removed it permanently after it locked me out of my own site on my laptop during important updating that I was doing. Was blessed to have had the WordPress app open on my mobile, which allowed me to deactivate the plugin and get back into my site.
And what happened after I deactivated the plugin after a year of having it? Zero. Life moved on. Security / threats changed zero. The plugin will sit on your site as a semblance of doing something without actually changing anything.
What I noticed on the stats was that it was always ostensibly blocking some form of malware or intrusion. You know how that goes: “We blocked 48 fatal threats today.” That type of software. I began to see this more as a built-in feature to make you think it’s actually doing something for you, when in reality, it does nothing.
Then maybe a few months after I removed it, my credit card got automatically charged 80 dollars for an update even though I didn’t even have the plugin on my computer anymore. Literally had removed it; wasn’t just deactivated. Thankfully customer service removed the charge. I give this plugin three stars because customer service was good and refunded me. Otherwise if we go based on functionality, it didn’t do anything noticeable for me.
Bottom line is: removed this plugin because it locked me out of my own site. Have zero time to deal with that type of thing. Security is ostensible and plugin is designed to make you think it changes something, when in reality it does nothing.
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