Title: Will this plugin stop brute force attack
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Will this plugin stop brute force attack

 *  Resolved [PCactive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcactive/)
 * (@pcactive)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-stop-brute-force-attack/)
 * I am getting tons of login attempts from mutiple ip address with seconds of each
   other. I do not have this plugin installed. Will this plugin stop these attempts
   or just notify me that they are happening? I want a plugin that will stop them.
 * Also will this work w/ multisite installation? Can I network activate so all 
   site instantly benefit from this plugin or do I need to activate features for
   each individual site? Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/gotmls/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gotmls/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-stop-brute-force-attack/#post-6064490)
 * My Brute-Force protection is unique in that it loads before the WordPress bootstrap,
   so it does not check passwords or send notifications of failed login attempts.
   My login protection is not designed to stop humans from futile attempt to guess
   your password. I focus is to detect when a bot is trying to post to your login
   page and redirect these bots away from your site before WordPress even loads,
   so that your server is not tasked with checking thousands of attempted passwords
   against your users table that would otherwise take your server’s resources away
   from legitimate visitors. There is no way to actually STOP an attempt just as
   you cannot STOP a sales person from dialing your phone number if they have it.
   The important thing it to make sure that the call is not answered and ideally
   that your phone does not even ring so that your attention is not diverted from
   other more important things.
 * Yes, it works on multisite too and you can network activate, but you still have
   to Install the Brute-Force Protection from the Anti-Malware Settings page. Once
   installed this Brute-Force Protection will be active on all sites.

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 * [Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gotmls/)
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## Tags

 * [brute force](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/brute-force/)
 * [multisites](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisites/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-stop-brute-force-attack/#post-6064490)
 * Status: resolved