Title: Easy Bruteforce Protect
Author: Doyle Lewis
Published: <strong>August 7, 2014</strong>
Last modified: August 7, 2014

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# Easy Bruteforce Protect

 By [Doyle Lewis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keliix06/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-bruteforce-protect.zip)

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## Description

This plugin modifies your .htaccess file to provide protection from brute force 
attack bots.

## Installation

All you need to do is install and activate the plugin. Deactivate to remove protection
from the .htaccess file.

## FAQ

  What code is added?  BEGIN EASYBFP

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase INSTALLED_FOLDER RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://YOURSITE.COM [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
^(._)?wp-login.php(._)$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(._)?wp-admin$ RewriteRule
^(.)$ – [F]

  END EASYBFP

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Easy Bruteforce Protect” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Doyle Lewis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keliix06/)
 *   [ buyhttp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buyhttp/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated: **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations: **10+**
 *  Tested up to: **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-bruteforce-protect/)
 * Tags:
 * [Brute Force](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/brute-force/)[htaccess](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/htaccess/)
   [security](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-bruteforce-protect/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Doyle Lewis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keliix06/)
 *   [ buyhttp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/buyhttp/)

## Support

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