Great plugin, works great!

Not really sure why some people are saying this plugin is terrible – I’ve tried all the other unpaid alternatives, and this is the best.

I was getting backend hack attempts about 1-5 times a day, and a LOT of comment spam. When I started using IQBlock this dropped down dramatically – sometimes one attempt a week, sometimes you get a small flurry of a few at once and nothing for 3-4 days. When I started it I didn’t get hack attempts for weeks! So it’s definitely working. I was desperately adding all of them into Wordfence as IP ranges…which took hours. This just works.

It’s not 100% but that’s not the plugin’s fault – it’s MaxMind’s free database and that I think hackers register new/fringe IP addresses in IP blocks they know aren’t on the database yet. But it’s certainly catches 80-90% which is good enough for me, I have Wordfence for the rest.

And when I blocked China from the frontend along with Ukraine, the spam went down greatly – sorry China, but I worked out (using another older plugin called Block Top Spammers that lists the top ones) that all the spam was coming from you!

Only one thing which I think have been fixed which might not have helped – database didn’t download automatically in previous versions, and is only every month so when I get sudden uptick in hacks I go and manually click ‘Download Database’ for both. This seems to stop them for a bit.