D.K. Smith

<h4>WP Webdoctor – WordPres Security Plugin: Antivirus & Virus Scanner</h4>
<p>WordPress itself is a very secure platform. However, it helps to add some extra security and firewall to your site by using a security plugin that enforces a lot of good security practices.</p>
<p>The WP Webdoctor Security plugin will take your website security to a whole new level.</p>
<p>This plugin is designed and written by experts and is easy to use and understand.</p>
<p>It reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities, and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques.</p>
<p>All In One WP Security also uses an unprecedented security points grading system to measure how well you are protecting your site based on the security features you have activated.</p>
<p>Our security and firewall rules are categorized into “basic”, “intermediate” and “advanced”. This way you can apply the firewall rules progressively without breaking your site’s functionality.</p>
<p>The WP Webdoctor Security plugin doesn’t slow down your site and it is 100% free.</p>
<p>Below is a list of the security and firewall features offered in this plugin:</p>
<h4>User Accounts Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Detect if there is a user account which has the default “admin” username and easily change the username to a value of your choice.</li>
<li>The plugin will also detect if you have any WordPress user accounts which have identical login and display names. Having account’s where display name is identical to login name is bad security practice because<br />
you are making it 50% easier for hackers because they already know the login name.</li>
<li>Password strength tool to allow you to create very strong passwords.</li>
<li>Stop user enumeration. So users/bots cannot discover user info via author permalink.</li>
</ul>
<h4>User Login Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Protect against “Brute Force Login Attack” with the Login Lockdown feature. Users with a certain IP address or range will be locked out of the system for a predetermined amount of time based on the configuration settings and you can also choose to be notified<br />
via email whenever somebody gets locked out due to too many login attempts.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>As the administrator you can view a list of all locked out users which are displayed in an easily readable and navigable table which also allows you to unlock individual or bulk IP addresses at the click of a button.</p>
</li>
<li>Force logout of all users after a configurable time period</li>
<li>
<p>Monitor/View failed login attempts which show the user’s IP address, User ID/Username and Date/Time of the failed login attempt</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Monitor/View the account activity of all user accounts on your system by keeping track of the username, IP address, login date/time, and logout date/time.</p>
</li>
<li>Ability to automatically lockout IP address ranges which attempt to login with an invalid username.</li>
<li>Ability to see a list of all the users who are currently logged into your site.</li>
<li>Allows you to specify one or more IP addresses in a special whitelist. The whitelisted IP addresses will have access to your WP login page.</li>
<li>Add Google reCaptcha or plain maths captcha to WordPress Login form.</li>
<li>Add Google reCaptcha or plain maths captcha to the forgot password form of your WP Login system.</li>
</ul>
<h4>User Registration Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable manual approval of WordPress user accounts. If your site allows people to create their own accounts via the WordPress registration form, then you can minimize SPAM or bogus registrations by manually approving each registration.</li>
<li>Ability to add Google reCaptcha or plain maths captcha to the WordPress’s user registration page to protect you from spam user registration.</li>
<li>Ability to add Honeypot to the WordPress’s user registration form to reduce registration attempts by robots.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Database Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easily set the default WP prefix to a value of your choice with the click of a button.</li>
<li>Schedule automatic backups and email notifications or make an instant DB backup whenever you want with one click.</li>
</ul>
<h4>File System Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Identify files or folders which have permission settings which are not secure and set the permissions to the recommend secure values with click of a button.</li>
<li>Protect your PHP code by disabling file editing from the WordPress administration area.</li>
<li>Easily view and monitor all host system logs from a single menu page and stay informed of any issues or problems occurring on your server so you can address them quickly.</li>
<li>Prevent people from accessing the readme.html, license.txt and wp-config-sample.php files of your WordPress site.</li>
</ul>
<h4>htaccess and wp-config.php File Backup and Restore</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easily backup your original .htaccess and wp-config.php files in case you will need to use them to restore broken functionality.</li>
<li>Modify the contents of the currently active .htaccess or wp-config.php files from the admin dashboard with only a few clicks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Blacklist Functionality</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ban users by specifying IP addresses or use a wild card to specify IP ranges.</li>
<li>Ban users by specifying user agents.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Firewall Functionality</h4>
<p>This plugin allows you to easily add a lot of firewall protection to your site via htaccess file. An htaccess file is processed by your web server before any other code on your site.<br />
So these firewall rules will stop malicious script(s) before it gets a chance to reach the WordPress code on your site.</p>
<ul>
<li>Access control facility.</li>
<li>Instantly activate a selection of firewall settings ranging from basic, intermediate and advanced.</li>
<li>Enable the famous “6G Blacklist” Firewall rules courtesy of <a href="http://perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Perishable Press</a></li>
<li>Forbid proxy comment posting.</li>
<li>Block access to debug log file.</li>
<li>Disable trace and track.</li>
<li>Deny bad or malicious query strings.</li>
<li>Protect against Cross Site Scripting (XSS) by activating the comprehensive advanced character string filter.<br />
or malicious bots who do not have a special cookie in their browser. You (the site admin) will know how to set this special cookie and be able to log into your site.</li>
<li>WordPress PingBack Vulnerability Protection feature. This firewall feature allows the user to prohibit access to the xmlrpc.php file in order to protect against certain vulnerabilities in the pingback functionality. This is also helpful to block bots from constantly accessing the xmlrpc.php file and wasting your server resource.</li>
<li>Ability to block fake Googlebots from crawling your site.</li>
<li>Ability to prevent image hotlinking. Use this to prevent others from hotlinking your images.</li>
<li>Ability to log all 404 events on your site. You can also choose to automatically block IP addresses that are hitting too many 404s.</li>
<li>Ability to add custom rules to block access to various resources of your site.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Brute force login attack prevention</h4>
<ul>
<li>Instantly block Brute Force Login Attacks via our special Cookie-Based Brute Force Login Prevention feature. This firewall functionality will block all login attempts from people and bots.</li>
<li>Ability to hide admin login page. Rename your WordPress login page URL so that bots and hackers cannot access your real WordPress login URL. This feature allows you to change the default login page (wp-login.php) to something you configure.</li>
<li>Ability to use Login Honeypot which will helps reduce brute force login attempts by robots.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security Scanner</h4>
<ul>
<li>The file change detection scanner can alert you if any files have changed in your WordPress system. You can then investigate and see if that was a legitimate change or some bad code was injected.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Comment SPAM Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Monitor the most active IP addresses which persistently produce the most SPAM comments and instantly block them with the click of a button.</li>
<li>Prevent comments from being submitted if it doesn’t originate from your domain (this should reduce some SPAM bot comment posting on your site).</li>
<li>Add a captcha to your wordpress comment form to add security against comment spam.</li>
<li>Automatically and permanently block IP addresses which have exceeded a certain number of comments labelled as SPAM.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Front-end Text Copy Protection</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ability to disable the right click, text selection and copy option for your front-end.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Regular updates and additions of new security features</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Security is something that evolves over time. We will be updating the All In One WP Security plugin with new security features (and fixes if required) on a regular basis so you can rest assured that your site will be on the cutting edge of security protection techniques.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Works with Most Popular WordPress Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>It should work smoothly with most popular WordPress plugins.</li>
</ul>


WP Webdoctor

Powerful and effective wordpress security and firewall plugin for your site.

Cory Marsh

<p>BitFire protects WordPress sites from malicious bots, login attacks, malware, and unauthorized changes to files and database records.</p>
<h3>Free Protection</h3>
<p><strong>Malware Scanner</strong></p>
<p>Scan WordPress core, plugin, and theme files for malware, unexpected changes, and suspicious code.</p>
<p><strong>Real-Time Traffic Monitoring</strong></p>
<p>Review every request to your site, including who visited, what they accessed, and whether the request was blocked.</p>
<p><strong>30 Days of Traffic History</strong></p>
<p>Look back through a full month of traffic data to investigate issues, identify patterns, or better understand how your site is being used.</p>
<p><strong>Login Protection</strong></p>
<p>Browser verification stops automated login attempts, brute-force attacks, password stuffing, and other suspicious authentication activity.</p>
<p><strong>A+ Rated Web Application Firewall</strong></p>
<p>Independent third-party testing by Cloudbric rated BitFire’s WAF at 94% (A+). See how it compares:</p>
<ul>
<li>BitFire: <strong>94% (A+)</strong></li>
<li>Ninja Firewall [PRO]: 67% (D)</li>
<li>Wordfence [PRO]: 41% (D)</li>
<li>MalCare [PRO]: 34% (F)</li>
<li>iThemes Security: 2% (F)</li>
<li>Shield Security [PRO]: 2% (F)</li>
<li>SiteGround Security: 2% (F)</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://labs.cloudbric.com/wafer" rel="nofollow ugc">View the full independent test results at Cloudbric Labs</a></p>
<p><strong>WP-CLI</strong></p>
<p>Use BitFire’s WP-CLI integration to start malware scans, review scan results, inspect blocking data, and review web requests to your site. CSV, JSON, and table output formats are supported.</p>
<h3>BitFire Pro</h3>
<p><strong>Built for Faster AI-Driven Attacks</strong></p>
<p>AI-assisted exploit generation is reducing the time between vulnerability discovery and active attacks. Traditional defenses must wait for patches, signatures, or firewall rules.</p>
<p><strong>Runtime Application Self-Protection</strong></p>
<p>BitFire’s patented RASP technology monitors sensitive file, database, and network operations during every request.</p>
<p>It can prevent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unauthorized PHP file changes.</li>
<li>Unexpected administrator creation.</li>
<li>Malicious database modifications.</li>
<li>Outbound connections to malicious servers.</li>
<li>Redirect and JavaScript injection.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Automated Malware Scans</strong></p>
<p>Run malware scans up to twice per day, with results emailed to you when a threat is confirmed.</p>
<p><strong>Threat Hunter</strong></p>
<p>Search traffic, files, database content, processes, and scheduled jobs for signs of compromise or reinfection.</p>
<p><strong>360-Degree Coverage</strong></p>
<p>Load BitFire before the WordPress boot process to stop attacks that target plugin and theme files directly.</p>
<p><strong>Human Support</strong></p>
<p>This is what makes BitFire different from the big-name security plugins: when you need help, you talk to a real person.</p>
<p>Our US-based support team is available 12 hours a day. No ticket queues that take days. No chatbots. No copy-and-paste answers. Just experienced people who will help make sure your site is secure.</p>
<p>Whether you need help with setup, have a question about a blocked request, or want someone to examine a suspicious file, we are here.</p>
<h3>Pricing</h3>
<h3>Free</h3>
<p>$0 forever. Bot blocking, malware scanning, login protection, and real-time traffic monitoring. Everything you need to stop the vast majority of automated attacks.</p>
<h3>Pro – Single Site</h3>
<p>$60/year. Full RASP protection, an A+ rated WAF, AI malware analysis, 30-day traffic logs, and priority human support.</p>
<h3>Pro – Multi-Site Volume Pricing</h3>
<p>Managing multiple sites? The more you protect, the less you pay:</p>
<ul>
<li>2-4 sites: $50/site per year</li>
<li>5-9 sites: $45/site per year</li>
<li>10-24 sites: $35/site per year</li>
<li>25-49 sites: $25/site per year</li>
</ul>
<p>Volume pricing is ideal for freelancers, agencies, and anyone managing WordPress sites for clients. <a href="https://bitfire.co/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact us for volume licensing</a>.</p>
<h3>How BitFire Compares</h3>
<h3>BitFire vs Wordfence</h3>
<p>Wordfence is a solid product with a large team writing custom rules for known vulnerabilities. One important difference is how BitFire handles automated traffic:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Bot blocking</strong> – WordPress cannot reliably distinguish human traffic from automated traffic on its own. BitFire is designed to identify and block malicious bots before they can exploit or infect your site.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you use Wordfence, we strongly recommend using the paid version.</p>
<p><a href="https://bitfire.co/en/wordfence-vs-bitfire" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the detailed BitFire vs Wordfence comparison</a></p>
<h3>Why Do Other Plugins Focus So Much on Cleaning Up Malware?</h3>
<p>Good question. Have you noticed how much other security plugins charge for malware removal and how much of their marketing focuses on finding infections?</p>
<p>BitFire focuses on keeping malware off your site so you do not need to pay someone to remove it.</p>
<h3>Privacy / Monitoring / Data Collection</h3>
<p>We take your privacy seriously. Here is exactly what BitFire does with your data:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>Traffic inspection.</strong> BitFire inspects web traffic to your site to identify threats. Sensitive data, such as passwords and credit card numbers, is automatically replaced with <strong><em>redacted</em></strong> in logs. You can add additional fields to filter in the settings.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Error reporting.</strong> If BitFire encounters a software error, it can send a report to our development team so we can fix it in a future release. No visitor data is included in these reports.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Malware hash checking.</strong> BitFire sends small numeric fingerprints, known as 64-bit hashes, of your files to our hash server to compare them against our database of known-good files. For example, a file might hash to the number <code>812612388126487</code>. We never receive your actual file contents, and file hashes are not stored on our servers.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Local data storage.</strong> All log data and configuration files are stored locally on your server in a hidden, randomly named directory under <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>. This directory is protected by an <code>.htaccess</code> file and is not accessible from the web.</p>
</li>
</ol>


BitFire Security – Firewall, Malware Scanner, Bot Blocker, Login Protection

Block malicious bots, malware, and exploits with an A+ rated WAF, fast malware scanning, and runtime file and database protection.

WP Webdoctor vs BitFire Security – Firewall, Malware Scanner, Bot Blocker, Login Protection