how to unblock myself :-)

One thing u have to be careful though is plguins like to use special ids for their POST/REQUEST and so this could be picked up by Screamer and flag it as bad and potentially get your self banned from the Admin page (and entire site) accidentally. So u want to make sure when u enable the Ban feature to be aware that you may need to do some adjusting by including post/get ids in its Exception field.

For me, i kept getting confused why i kept getting locked out when i attempted to edit preferences for another plugin. Took me a while to notice it was screamer creating a false positive on my navigating/saving attempts in Admin page…yikes.

I was forced to go into the database, search for my ip to locate which tables it was in and remove the rows (with my ip) that were related to screamer and that fixed the problem. I also took note of the “REQUEST.xxx” and “POST.xxx” columns to include them into Screamer’s exception list. With that done it fixed the problem perfectly.

So this isnt a flaw of Screamer it is just being very sensitive to what is going on and it doesnt know who is an intruder or not — the maker of this plugin could have included a more detailed exception list that included not just the field name but values in the field since intruders could use the same fields but the data could be different; ip address exclusions would be nice too..