Title: Wordfence Security Network question
Last modified: January 13, 2017

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# Wordfence Security Network question

 *  [kaspar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaspar/)
 * (@kaspar)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-security-network-question/)
 * I recently got the protection level changed to Extended Protection. It took me
   a lot of searching to figure out how to accomplish this on my server because 
   the “Optimize Wordfence Firewall” button didn’t work (probably due to a server
   configuration setting that I couldn’t change because I’m on a VPS hosting account.)
   I’ve checked the box for “Participate in the Real-Time WordPress Security Network”
   as well.
 * Now I’m seeing a lot of hits “blocked by the Wordfence Security Network” in the
   Live Traffic feed. Nearly all of these hits targeted …/wp-login.php. Will these
   hits continue to be blocked without my adding them to the Advanced Blocking or
   Blocked IP pages?
 * If I do permanently block an IP address or add a hostname into the Advance Blocking
   page, does this block these hosts and/or IPs for everyone that participates in
   the network?
 * If I block a host or an IP or an IP range or a top-level domain that perhaps 
   should not be blocked, will this block traffic from those hosts, etc. for everyone
   on the Wordfence Security Network – or will they only be blocked from my website?
 * I do want to defend my website against attack but I don’t want to accidentally
   block legitimate traffic for myself or anyone else.

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 *  [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-security-network-question/#post-8664855)
 * Great question! This is something I would like to know more about as well.

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 * Last reply from: [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-security-network-question/#post-8664855)
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