Title: Huge problem with plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Huge problem with plugin

 *  [Cedricmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedricmi/)
 * (@cedricmi)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-problem-with-plugin/)
 * I had a huge problem with the plugin, just when I was not available.
 * On July 22nd, my ISP contacted me and told me the plugin caused problems for 
   the whole server.
 * lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceConstants.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) =-
   1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceConstants.php”,
   0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/local/lib/
   php/wordfenceConstants.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
   lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceConstants.
   php”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=672, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/
   wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …})
   = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence”, {st_mode
   =S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 getcwd(“/home2/cedric/public_html”, 4096)
   = 26 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceClass.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) 
   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceClass.php”,
   0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/local/lib/
   php/wordfenceClass.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
   lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.
   php”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118564, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/
   wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …})
   = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence”, {st_mode
   =S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 getcwd(“/home2/cedric/public_html”, 4096)
   = 26 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceScanner.php”, 0x7fff47c4b710)
   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceScanner.
   php”, 0x7fff47c4b710) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
 * It was so bad he had to rename the folder wordfence.
 * The site became unresponsive and it took almost a minute to load a page. WordPress
   became almost impossible to use because it kept loosing connection to server.
 * Today I disabled, uninstalled then reinstalled Wordfence, which I use mostly 
   as a cache plugin.
    I have no problem forking 39$ but I want to be sure that 
   such problems won’t happen again and that the plugin has at least minimal telemetry
   to inform me when things look very bad.
 * Let me know if you know of the problem and if you fixed it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Cedricmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedricmi/)
 * (@cedricmi)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-problem-with-plugin/#post-5136977)
 * By the way, it seems Wordfence uses cookies in relation to cache.
 * Unfortunately, in some conditions this means viewer view old pages. In a typical
   blog this is as if the blog didn’t change for days and they don’t see the new
   posts.
 * Ideally, there would be some kind of panic button in Wordfence Plugin “Ignore
   Cookies older than x days”.
 * This would solve the problem of asking the viewers to delete cookies on their
   computers, because most are unable and/or unwilling to do so.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-problem-with-plugin/#post-5136977)
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