Wordfence 6.2.0 doesn’t consistently detect non-existent file

Whenever you get an attempt at a nonexistent page, it’s a prober, obviously you don’t have a link they could have followed,so block that range for a while and see if it’s a one-hit wonder. I have the opposite problem; WF claims my most popular page doesn’t exist, every hit is marked that way.

WF is making a mistake trying to do too many things, the only unique and valuable feature they have is Live Traffic and iterative blocking yet they keep piling on “features”. It’s almost like they want to chase intelligent users off and just wow the tards with glitz. PHB’s will fall for it, but anyone who does the hands-on admin can’t be anything but annoyed.

All Hits doesn’t show the probey hits I need to see to admin the site without lots of scrolling, now need to use Pages Not Found for those. LT never did label things correctly in a reliable way, i.e. often found bots in the Humans list, but at least switching panes was easier. Brilliant idea to add an extra click to every pane change, a perfect example of the hubris WF has about how good their parsing is.

I’m going to move to a blocklist in .htaccess soon, just use WF as an indicator of what might be getting through before cutting ties. It’s a shame, if WF only did that one thing really well, was optimised for it, and had the old pane interface, I might well subscribe just for convenience. For now I went back to the 6.1.x version without the ads.