• Hello, i have few concerns.

    1. Yahoo! Slurp is blocked without a reason and i don’t know why:

    United States Sunnyvale, United States was blocked for Accessed a banned URL. at http://my.site/legit/url
    4.03.2017 11:30:30 (2 minutes ago)   IP: 68.180.229.189 [unblock]   Hostname: b115281.yse.yahoo.net
    Browser: undefined
    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

    Its blocked on legit urls, normal urls to posts etc. I checked the setting twice and i do not set this to block any robots or any legit urls.

    2. Also, few other robots and i think legit users was blocked for “accessed a banned url”. Here, (i think) normal user with refferrer etc:

    United States Schaumburg, United States arrived from http://normal.site/with/link/to/my/site/ and was blocked for Accessed a banned URL. at http://my.site/legit/url/
    4.03.2017 09:33:44 (2 hours 12 mins ago)   IP: ******* [unblock]   Hostname: d47-69-32-10.col.wideopenwest.com
    Browser: undefined
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US)

    3. A bunch of IPs blocked for the same reason “accessed a banned url” but the url is http://my.site/wp-login.php. Its a good thing, but i did not add “/wp-login.php” to banned urls list. This list only contains “/xmlrpc.php” and some “/folder/” which is dissallowed in “robots.txt” and which serves as a simple curios-robot trap.

    4. I had a few SQLI attacks lately, and none of the IPs were blocked, i mean banned. I tried to paste the same url which attacker used, and i saw ony WF 403 forbidden page, but my IP was not blocked.

    I am using this plugin for a week or so, and i love it, didn’t know there was so many attacks on my wordpress before. But i think it’s not working very well on my installation.

    Cheers.

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