Wordfence

“Well, I have so far always used Wordfence to secure my sites, but one thing they all had in common was the clutter i received in the databases. Is there a way to avoid this? Or shall I use an alternative?”

“The owner had Wordfence installed and running, dashboard showing green checkmarks across the board, "no malicious files found," the whole reassuring experience. The site was actively compromised the entire time. I ran Nova Scan over it and…”more

“I am using the Wordfence Security plugin on WordPress, but my site still got infected with malware. I don’t understand how attackers are able to exploit it.”

“I have a dedicated server at wpengine with about 50 websites, and I have been using wordfence for malware scanning. I have alerts set up to email me. However recently several sites have become infected, and although I found the malware repo…”more

“Explain to me why Wordfence is so popular and everyone recommends it? Even its pro version is not able to find all infected files and records in the database. This is especially true for new vectors of infection. What is its main feature? I…”more

“I was sick and tired of multiple websites sending me “Increased Attack Rate” emails from Wordfence and my server maxing out CPU usage during attacks. I figured having Cloudflare and Wordfence together would be enough… but nope.”