Reply To: Site Hacked in middle of installing BPS

Blocking by IP address is time consuming and not really that effective unless you know for a fact that the IP address will not change.  Typically hackers and spammers have a pool of millions of IP addresses.  When you block 1 of those IP addresses they use another one………

If you are trying to protect your Login page then both Login Security and JTC Anti-Spam / Anti-Hacker do that.  Both of these features protect against automated hacker bots and automated spammer bots.  99% of all spamming and hacking is automated with Bots/Bot programs.

If you want to block this Turkish IP address from being able to get to your website then you would use this “Deny from” code shown below in the examples.  As I stated above most likely the IP address that you block will be switched to another IP address by the hacker/spammer.  If that happens then you would need to add the additional IP addresses that hacker/spammer uses.  That process could go on for a long time and be very time consuming.  BPS Pro has many layers of “Action Security” – hacker X does bad action Y and Z = blocked/forbidden so IP blocking is probably not necessary to do since whatever bad action the hacker/spammer is doing will be blocked.  With that said you need to use basic good general security practices:  Create very secure passwords for everything and never display usernames or passwords publicly.

Use 3 octets of the IP address so that you are blocking all IP address in the range of 213.238.175.1 - 213.238.175.256

Deny from 213.238.175.

Use 2 octets of the IP address so that you are blocking all IP address in the range of 213.238.0.1 - 213.238.256.256

Deny from 213.238.

Click this link below for what to add and where to add it in BPS Pro Custom Code.

http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/htaccess-block-ip-address-block-access-to-files-by-ip-address/

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