Title: Is this plugin a scam?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Is this plugin a scam?

 *  Resolved [MikeODO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeodo/)
 * (@mikeodo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-a-scam/)
 * This was only 1 or 2 plugs i installed — and uploaded the geo database file they
   recommended. My web host provider has taken my sites offline due to what they
   say are hacks caused by this plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-a-scam/#post-6609350)
 * And what hacks may that be?
 * And what web hosting company do you use?
 * This plugin is at the wordpress plugin site for 6 years now. Don’t you think 
   WordPress would have taken it down and that this forum would be filled with complaints
   if it was a scam / bad plugin?
 * It sounds more to me that you have a web host that does not know what it is doing.
   And there are most definitely a whole load of bad web hosts out there.
 *  Thread Starter [MikeODO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeodo/)
 * (@mikeodo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-a-scam/#post-6609395)
 * Pascal, apologies, was asking not accusing. Could have been the other plugin 
   that ironically enough was also a security plugin. Love the concept of iQ Block
   Country, but was not able to get it to work. After activating it and uploading
   the database, I was still getting attacked from the countries I banned. The hackers
   from Russia are particularly aggressive — about 300 attempts to log in every 
   hour. What I may do is set up a sandbox on a different host and try your plugin
   again, perhaps it was falsely identified by my current host provider.
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-a-scam/#post-6609397)
 * My apologies if I sounded a bit harsh. Didn’t mean to.
 * I just come across a lot of hosting companies that have no clue about the real
   server stuff and just pinpoint to a CMS, plugin or other script as usually their
   clients have even less of a clue as they trust that their web hosting company
   knows what they are doing.
 * Perhaps this section of the FAQ answers your question about hacking attempts 
   you may still see:
 * **How come I still see visitors being blocked from other security plugins?
 * Other wordpress plugins handle the visitors also. They might run before iQ Block
   Country or they might run after iQ Block Country runs.
 * This however does not mean this plugin does not work, it just means somebody 
   tried to access a certain page, post or your backend and another plugin also 
   handled the request.
 * If you are worried this plugin does not work you could try to block your own 
   country or your own ip address and afterwards visit your frontend website and
   see if it actually works. Also if you have access to the logfiles of the webserver
   that hosts your website you can see that these visitors are actually denied with
   a HTTP error 403.

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/iq-block-country/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=3136019)
 * [iQ Block Country](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/#faq)
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 * Last reply from: [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-a-scam/#post-6609397)
 * Status: resolved