[wp-forums] Answer to why WordFence got so many plugin reviews rcently

[Ipstenu the Half-Elf]

I feel unloved. All I got was a bunch of angry Russians for snarking on 
NBC over the Olympics ;)

It is a little spammy, but it's within tolerances of smappy 
advertising. (If I was a customer I'd probably reply with a link 6 or 7 
times, to reinforce how annoying that was... but I'm a vocal customer.)

On Mon Feb 10 13:00:27 2014, Drew wrote:
> Got the same message sent to our meetup group a little while ago. And I've
> definitely been seeing a heavy influx of firewall notifications today, so
> it isn't inaccurate. But definitely a little spammy :/
>
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> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ipstenu the Half-Elf
> <ipstenu at halfelf.org>wrote:
>
>> Jan noticed this earlier: http:// pic.twitter.com/Q4DquiYNRT
>>
>> Now I know why! They sent this email (and yes, it linked every single time
>> to the review page):
>>
>> Dear WordPress Publisher,
>>
>> If you would like to stop receiving WordPress security alerts and product
>> updates from Wordfence, you can click here.  You subscribed to this list
>> via the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress.  If you find this alert
>> helpful, please give us a 5 star rating on WordPress.org.
>>
>> As of 11am eastern time this morning we are monitoring the largest
>> distributed brute force attack on WordPress installations that we've seen
>> to date. The real-time attack map on www.wordfence.com became so busy
>> that we've had to throttle the amount of traffic we show down to 4% of
>> actual traffic.
>>
>> A brute force attack is when an attacker tries many times to guess your
>> username password combination by repeatedly sending login attempts. A
>> distributed brute force attack is when an attacker uses a large number of
>> machines spread around the internet to do this in order to circumvent any
>> blocking mechanisms you have in place.
>>
>> If you're using the free or paid version of Wordfence you should have the
>> option to "Participate in the real-time Wordfence security network" under
>> 'Other options' enabled. This will immediately block any attack originating
>> from an IP address that has attacked other WordPress sites using Wordfence.
>> This is an effective defense against this kind of attack.
>>
>> We recommend that until this passes you monitor your WordPress websites
>> closely for unusual activity including logins, account creation or changes
>> to the public facing website.
>>
>> If you found this alert helpful, please give us a 5 star rating on
>> WordPress.org on the right of the page.
>>
>> Mark Maunder
>> Wordfence Creator & Feedjit Inc. CEO.
>>
>> PS: If you aren't already a member you can subscribe to our WordPress
>> Security and Product Updates mailing list here. You're welcome to republish
>> this email in part or in full provided you mention that the source
>> iswww.wordfence.com. If you would like to get Wordfence for your
>> WordPress website, simply go to your "Plugin" menu, click "add new" and
>> search for "wordfence".
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