Title: Zombie alerts
Last modified: September 11, 2017

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# Zombie alerts

 *  Resolved [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zombie-alerts/)
 * I am trying to disable the email alerts I receive when a login fails. I go to
   Sucuri settings > Alerts, and remove my email address by selecting it and clicking
   delete. Invariably within the next several days, I will receive another alert
   and when I go back in to check, my email address is back in place. What is causing
   this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fzombie-alerts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zombie-alerts/#post-9487086)
 * The email address that you are seeing in the settings page is obtained from the
   settings which are stored in this file [1]. When you request the deletion of 
   one or more entries from the list the plugin will go ahead and delete them from
   that file, until here everything is good.
 * However, once a new event is triggered in the website the plugin will try to 
   send a notification with a warning about something suspicious, but since you 
   deleted all email addresses it resorts back to use the email associated to the
   user account created during the installation of the website, which in this case
   happens to be yours.
 * This is why the email is reappearing after a while.
 * **SOLUTION:** Add a new email before you delete yours, it could be something 
   like “noreply@example.com” and the plugin will stop sending the alerts to your
   inbox.
 * [1] `/wp-content/uploads/sucuri/sucuri-settings.php`
 *  Thread Starter [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zombie-alerts/#post-9487176)
 * That makes sense. Thanks for the quick solution!

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zombie-alerts/#post-9487176)
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