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| 1 | === Plugin Name === |
| 2 | Contributors: mmaunder |
| 3 | Tags: anti-virus, malware, firewall, antivirus, virus, google safe browsing, phishing, scrapers, hacking, wordfence |
| 4 | Requires at least: 3.3.1 |
| 5 | Tested up to: 3.3.1 |
| 6 | Stable tag: 1.2 |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Wordfence is an enterprise firewall and anti-virus plugin for WordPress. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | == Description == |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Wordfence is a free enterprise class firewall and anti-virus plugin for WordPress websites. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Wordfence is 100% free. You need to sign up on Wordfence.com to get a free API key. |
| 15 | We also offer a Premium API key that adds additional scanning capabilities. See below for details. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Wordfence: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * Scans core files against repository versions to check their integrity. |
| 20 | * Premium API key also scans themes and plugins against repository versions. This is currently the only difference between free and premium API keys. |
| 21 | * See how files have changed. Optionally repair changed files. |
| 22 | * Scans for signatures of over 44,000 known malware variants. |
| 23 | * Continuously scans for known dangerous malware and phishing URL's in all your comments, posts and files. |
| 24 | * Scans for heuristics of backdoors, trojans and suspicious code. |
| 25 | * Checks the strength of all user and admin passwords. |
| 26 | * Monitor for unauthorized DNS changes. |
| 27 | * Monitor disk space. |
| 28 | * Includes a firewall to block fake Googlebots, malicious scans from hackers and botnets. |
| 29 | * Configure rate limiting based on different types of traffic. |
| 30 | * Choose whether you want to block or throttle users and robots who break your rules. |
| 31 | * Includes login security to lock out brute force hacks and to stop WordPress from revealing info useful to a hacker. |
| 32 | * See all your traffic in real-time, including robots, humans, 404 errors, logins and logouts and who is consuming most of your content. |
| 33 | * A real-time view of all traffic including crawlers, scrapers and shows in depth data on each hit including city level location. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Wordfence is full-featured and constantly updated by our team to incorporate the latest security features and to hunt for the |
| 36 | newest threats to your WordPress website. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | == Installation == |
| 39 | |
| 40 | To install Wordfence and start protecting your WordPress website: |
| 41 | |
| 42 | 1. Install Wordfence automatically or by uploading the ZIP file. |
| 43 | 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. |
| 44 | 1. Visit [Wordfence.com to get an API key](http://wordfence.com/) |
| 45 | 1. Go to the Wordfence menu option that appears on the left or your site's admin section. |
| 46 | 1. Enter your API key and click the button. |
| 47 | 1. Wordfence is now activated. Do your first scan which will enable scheduled scanning. |
| 48 | 1. Visit the Wordfence options page to enter your email address so that you can receive email alerts. |
| 49 | 1. Optionally change your security level or click the advanced options link to see under the hood. |
| 50 | 1. Click the "Live Traffic" menu option to watch your site activity in real-time. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | == Frequently Asked Questions == |
| 53 | |
| 54 | = Why does Wordfence need an API key? = |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Wordfence contacts our servers for a variety of reasons. These include: comparing the hashes of your core, theme and plugin files |
| 57 | against the official versions, checking if URL's in your comments, posts and files are on any known list of dangerous URL's, checking |
| 58 | if any of your file signatures match a large list of known malware files, and much more. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | = Will Wordfence slow my site down? = |
| 61 | |
| 62 | We have spent a lot of time making sure Wordfence runs very quickly. Wordfence uses its own database |
| 63 | tables and advanced mysql features to ensure it runs as fast as possible. The creators of Wordfence |
| 64 | also run a large scale real-time analytics product and much of the technology and knowledge from |
| 65 | our real-time analytics products is built into Wordfence. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | = How often is Wordfence updated? = |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Wordfence is continually updated. That is the advantage of scanning using an API key that connects to a |
| 70 | web service. While we do provide updates to the Wordfence plugin frequently and it's important |
| 71 | that you install those updates, our web service is updated even more frequently with known |
| 72 | security issues that Wordfence will scan for. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | = What if I need support? = |
| 75 | |
| 76 | All our paid customers receive priority support. Excellent customer service is a key part |
| 77 | of being a Wordfence member. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | = Can I disable certain features of Wordfence? = |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Yes! Simply visit the Options page, click on advanced options and enable or disable the features you want. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | == Screenshots == |
| 84 | |
| 85 | 1. The home screen of Wordfence where you can see a summary, manage issues and do a manual scan. |
| 86 | 2. The Live Traffic view of Wordfence where you can see real-time activity on your site. |
| 87 | 3. The "Blocked IPs" page where you can manage blocked IP's, locked out IP's and see recently throttled IPs. |
| 88 | 4. The basic view of Wordfence options. There is very little to configure other than your alert email address and security level. |
| 89 | 5. If you're technically minded, this is the under-the-hood view of Wordfence options where you can fine-tune your security settings. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | == Changelog == |
| 92 | |
| 93 | = 1.1 = |
| 94 | * Initial public release of Wordfence. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | |
| 97 |