# WordFence Reviews **Vendor:** Defiant **Category:** [Website Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/website-security) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About WordFence Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. ## WordFence Reviews ### 1. Powerful firewall to protect a Wordpress eCommerce site. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey K. | Chief Operating Officer, Retail, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2026 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Allows me to see where, when, and how often my site is being attacked by bots and/or other malicious entities. Ability to firewall IP addresses, time block failed login attempts, etc. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Lots of useful features are available with the free version of the plugin but some of the more advanced features are locked in the Premium version and require a subscription. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** My site was being repeatedly attacked by bots trying to gain access using brute force and also spam account bots creating fake user accounts. Wordfence allowed me to see where these attacks were coming from and implement countermeasures to thwart or prevent them. ### 2. Even After Implementing Wordfence I have Post I don't know **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | Owner , Professional Training & Coaching, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2024 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Its best feature is the 2fa wordpress login **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I dont know how but my website got hacked several times and after using wordfence there are pages in author sections i which people have posted spam pages on my website. THERE iS NO 2FA for them. Plus I havent got notified because every time they send me emails it goes to spam and I dont know how people login to my website. I got to know after several days in google console. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its just 2fa free feature ### 3. Best Protection for Websites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charan K. | Lead Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2024 **What do you like best about WordFence?** From Firewall Protection, Malware Scanning, Security Alerts like login attempts, themes and Pugins updates. Wordfence checks the security threats when it comes to website. Centralized Dashboard helps to monitor all traffic trends, any recent attackss, and Security threat information. If you are buying Wordpress themes or plugins from unknown sellers workfence can check through the plugins for any threats, and URL's as well. I can add a range of IP's that brings needless traffic to my website and stop spammy ips to visit my website. Its easy to download a free version or paid version for additional features. One way to protect your website if you are growing it in faster. Its easy to integrate and use multiple features to keep your website secure. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** There is nothing much to unlike. It pretty much provides all the safety measures that is required for a website. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I sometimes dont update my plugins and themes on time, and i used to get emails about unauthorized logins. i keep monitoring Number of attackes every 24 hours as well. ### 4. Very Poor Customer Service **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xris M. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2024 **What do you like best about WordFence?** I am still trying to figure that part out. Stay tuned, I suppose. My interactions with WordFence thus far have been subpar at best. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The customer support is atrocious! Save yourself the headache and find a more responsive and reputible outfit for security. 2FA seems to work out just fine without the hassle of WordFence kicking you out/blocking you from accessing you site. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is creating more of a problem than a solution. Perhaps this software is still in development stages with underwhelming support. ### 5. Good Product to Safeguard your WordPress Website **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikunj C. | Digital Marketing Consultant, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2024 **What do you like best about WordFence?** 1. It protects wordpress website from attacks. 2. It emails if there is vunurability on the website, so that it can be quickly resolved. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Some things likee geo-bloacking is much more advanced in other plugins such as solid security **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Securing the website from unnecessary cyber attacks 2. Changing login url of wordpress ### 6. An all rounder WordPress website protection plugin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ansh G. | Project Maintainer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence offers many features such as IP Blocking and brute Force Protection, and the best one I like is the automatic virus scanning at different intervals. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** There is no such thing I dislike about WordFence. Unethical Hackers who try to break into websites may dislike it though :) **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** WordFence is a plugin that secures WordPress websites. Since I have a lot of WordFence websites, for me and my clients, I use it to keep them secure from online threats and zero day exploits using the WAF, one of the best WordFence feature. ### 7. I simply could not run my wordpress sites without Wordfence. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence keeps my wordpress sites safe from the relentless malicious actions of bad actors - for FREE! Additionally I liove that I can use Wordfence Central to manage site securtity of ALL my wordpress sites in one place, also for FREE! **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The free version gets new warnings after a slight delay compared to the pay versions, apart from that - the protection is about the same and that's what counts. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wordfence is protecitng all of my wordpress sites - I have around 50 at the moment and Wordence is the first thing that I install on every new wordpress installation I create. ### 8. Amazing Security Program - Best out there! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracey B. | Health care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2023 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Always being on the front end of the security wave and early access to patches **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Honestly, absolutely nothing but if I have to say something - it would be cost as a non profit **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preventing multiple brute force attacks on multiple websites ### 9. Horrible software, continually blocks people from our own company. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georgina L. | Digital Marketing and CRM Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Nothing. All the negative things outweigh any positives. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** It randomly blocks people in our own marketing department from accessing the website. We are onsite, so the IP isn't changing. The majority of the time it will block us without even asking for a password. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is supposed to be keeping our WordPress website secure, but all it does is lock out members of the marketing department. ### 10. Wordfence is the best security tool for a wordpress website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | Proprietor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2022 **What do you like best about WordFence?** The setting up for the wordfence is super easy, and the features in the plugin helps in securing the website is very reliable for any kind of website designing users. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Maybe there should be a feature for the no of time locked out to be more than 2months, and there should also be an option to hide the WordPress admin login. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helping me for all the websites of my clients, in securing the website from hackers and other malicious viruses or malware attacking the website. We can optimize the website by locking up the website for hackers and notifying the users or admin on the same. ### 11. Poor Technical Support. Wordfence Not Recording All Traffic When In Security Mode. **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen C. | Business Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Ability to track Security-related Live Traffic & block IPs when needed. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Technical support isn't reliable or timely. I doubt if the Technical Support staff fully understand the Wordfence product themselves! A recent example: I sold an item on my online website; however, Wordfence did not record the visit. I needed to confirm that the purchase was legitimate before shipping the item. (A primary reason for using Wordfence) I contacted Technical Support, who advised that even though the Wordfence setting was for Security Traffic Only (the recommended default), I could switch to All Traffic to see the recorded visit. There was no recorded visit. Technical Support then explained that "If you're not seeing the Traffic there, then that IP or user must never be actually visiting the site. The Live Traffic will log anything that touches the site." Well, the fact of the matter is that I did have a visitor who purchased and paid for an item, yet Wordfence did not record the visit. Technical Support then asked for a diagnostic report which I sent. Not receiving a response, I followed up twice only to receive "Everything that hits the site should show on the Live Traffic page. I wonder if that user in Germany was using a VPN when they purchased to mask their location, as a lot of people do. You could test to make sure it's working by doing the same with a VPN and see if those IPs show up." I conducted several tests (with and without a VPN) and found that when the All Traffic setting is "on" ALL visits are recorded. If I toggle to the Security Only setting, only Security Only visits are registered. However, toggling to All Traffic after being in the Security Only mode didn't record the Live Traffic visits when the Security Only toggle was on. I forwarded my findings to Technical Support, suggesting that there may be a system glitch. I asked if the All Traffic setting should perhaps be the recommended default setting until the issue is resolved or better understood. I received this response: "You could leave on All Traffic but it might increase database load, depending on how much traffic your site does see." The response failed to answer the question. I initiated this support ticket on January 28, 2022. Since then, I did receive payment for the online purchase on my website, and the item was shipped and received in Germany two weeks ago. The human visit did occur, but Wordfence did not record it. I find this troubling and have concerns about the plug-in integrity. The Wordfence Technical Support Ticket remains open and unanswered. Having a Premium Wordfence subscription for several years, I hoped for better communication and product support. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am concerned that Human visits are not being recorded when Security Only mode is active. ### 12. Horrible customer service, product doesn't work. It seems they are little more than a scam site now. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about WordFence?** The marketing was excellent. It convinced me they had everything I needed to solve my problem. The initial set up was great too. They made it easy to install and do the initial process. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Everything else. The audit was an obvious copy and paste with a couple of key changes in the pronouns. The scan never worked. The worst was customer service. The Automated email response was reassuring and then there was nothing for a day or two. Then someone was assigned to us and they all but disappeared for 5 days. Then another person was assigned with an apology. They did nothing. We paid US$490 (just under US fraud limits) for a service that doesn't work and doesn't respond. I currently have 4 tickets in for review, the oldest being 3 weeks old. It is "Being Processed." DO NOT GIVE THESE CRIMINALS ANY OF YOUR MONEY **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Do not give them any of your money. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product does not work. The audit was an obvious copy and paste. We are having a problem with customer service responding at all. Wordfence appears to be a scam site to me. ### 13. WordFence Fast/Emergency Response a Total Joke and Rip Off **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brett H. | President, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Great plugin for blocking live attacks or threats real time. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Absolute horrific rip off with their "Response" and "Fast" emergency repair services. They charged us over $5000 and fixed nothing. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bait and switch with their "emergency" response product that took 9 hours before they bothered to tell us that our site wasn't covered because of a plugin... LMAO. ### 14. Great support and great defense **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about WordFence?** The app constantly scans every website that has the plugin installed. Whenever it detects a threat, it automatically reacts and creates firewall rules to protect every website in the network. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I activated 2FA for my admin account, but somehow it didn't work and I was locked out of the website. It was an ordeal to get back to deactivate it. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a constant protection, I get notified of all the activity in my website and malicious users get locked out and banned automatically. ### 15. A Serious Issue, No One Cares **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chuck W. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Can't tell, because I'm not sure the service is activated. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Half hearted, tardy, rude, non existent replies. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Don't :) **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I thought I had firewall and site security through their premium offering. They couldn't confirm. They could not advise how to install their own software. Upon realizing my issue after repeating myself for two days, half-hearted screen shots were sent. I inquired as to whether these were found on my wp-admin side, or through their premium portal, as this was not clear. Only once they terminated my service did I receive a reply which clearly indicated what I'd been asking for four days. For no reason at all, the wrote in giant red letters 'this is the section i was referring to'. This was unprofessional and not necessary. While there was no swearing, granted. This was rude and condescending when I asked a fair question with pleases and thank you's. Why exactly did I need to know this information after termination? Why did you wait until now to tell me? Why not advise me of this fix once you realized it? I honestly don't even know the thinking. Clearly there's no understanding by this company of how to communicate to customers. Still angry at how unnecessarily rude that final email was. ### 16. WordFence **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick M. | Director, Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about WordFence?** The WordFence tool is easily configured and will provide a good amount of protection at the basic level (unpaid). Engaging the paid version brings additional strengths needed for today's cyber vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** If you are maintaining many websites containing WordFence, you will recive many emails...sometimes too many. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blocking of external hacking attempts into websites created using CRM tools such as Wordpress or Joomla. ### 17. Better Website Protection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NNEKA U. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Keeps my site secure by recommending actions to take when necessary. Helped me recover my site from hack attempt. Fixes vulnerability in theme, plugins and Wordpress core. Helps me keep themes, plugins and the site updated by notifying me via email when updates are available. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Can conflict with some site performance enhancement plugins and may throw errors when migrating servers. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I recommend WordFence for every WordPress website. It was recommended by my web hosting provider after my site got hacked, I've never had that experience afterwards. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protect my website from brute force attack, DDOS and phishing. It's an additional layer of protection against malwares and ransomeware. ### 18. Best WordPress Protection Against Malwares **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ERIC K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Actively notifies for updates and protects against hacks. active malware scan and protection, really helps to patch every know wordpress vulnerability from 3rd party plugins and themes etc. Active firewall limits known spam bots and malicious visitors. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** May be incompatible with some plugins. Causes some issues if not disabled before site migration. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I recommend WordFence as a must have security plugin in any wordpress installation. It actively protects against malware and even ransomware, this could cause your website suspension among other problems if you don't have WordFence. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actively protect my website against hacks and malwares. Notifies me of outdated, plugins, themes and wordpress core. Shows website vulnerability and helps to fix it. ### 19. Free Version is Enough **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kauri W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2020 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence scanning for malware and unwanted behaviors is really powerful even for the free version. Good thing it has an option for you to exclude or include different folders and files within your wordpress site to avoid any unwanted deletion of infected files to prevent further damage. I also am surprised with how you can set a rate limiter for specific pages specially registration pages and login pages of your site to protect you from hackers, bots and other threats. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Wordfence is a complete security solution and I am very grateful I discovered it. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Do not look further if you are still looking for a Security Plugin for your wordpress site. You can test their free version which is already full of features. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protection against hackers, bots and other threats. Scans deeply til your wordpress core for viruses and malwares. ### 20. Most Reliable Wordpress Security Plugin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnold C. | Junior Wordpress Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is the best security plugin we have tried as it is the most compatible to our needs. The free version offers features that are already enough to security a wordpress website. It has firewall options, rate limiting features, malware scanners and removal and even notifies you of unwanted behaviors and files within your wordpress site. The best thing is its live traffic option, in which it can show you the visitors to your site, especially the one's trying to hack your login page, showing its ip, and whether the one trying to access is a bot or human. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Sometimes, live traffic eats up too much resources. If your site is at its peak of visitors and it is sluggish, disable live traffic. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence free version is already a complete security solution for wordpress. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Wordfence installed, we are confident that our wordpress website is more secured and not much to worry about. ### 21. Marvelous Security Plugin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pio W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is excellent. It is: 1. Lightweight (as long as you disable live feed) 2. Free version is already fully featured, which includes, firewall, rate limiter, malware scanner, ip blocker and so on. 3. Notifies you of outdated plugins and even notifies you of undesirable executions within your site. 4. Hides wordpress version to avoid bots specifically attacking wordpress websites. 5. Has an option for what connection you have, if you are using CDN or any other reverse proxy so therell be no problem. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I just wished they have not removed Falcon. It was working great for me before. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence free is already fully featured and can protect any website reliably. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security measures for wordpress site is outstanding even with the free version. It helps me stop spam, ddos attacks and bruteforce. ### 22. A must for whoever has a Worpress Website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Filippo L. | Webmaster, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence Security is a great plugin. The many features available allow you to monitor traffic on your pages, block suspicious users and even improve the performance of your site. It is extremely popular (more than 2 million downloads) which, in addition to having different features to monitor the security status of the site, also provided to speed it up with the cache option. After activating the plugin, a menu dedicated to the WordPress Dashboard will be added. The Dashboard shows you an overview of the active functions and notifications of updates available for plugins and themes, as well as problems encountered during the most recent scan. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The only problem I identified is that the plugin configuration screens are entirely in English, even if you have installed WordPress in another language (e.g) Italian. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I recommend this plugin for every WordPress users. Although there is no software which can guarantees you total protection, with Wordfence plugin you can get very close to that. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** The greatest function of wordfence is, in my opinion. the firewall. This feature, in fact, helps you protect your site from external attacks. While that of premium users is updated in real time, that of the free plugin is updated after 30 days. Once the plugin is installed, the learning mode is activated. You need a Wordfence to learn things about your site and how to protect it. The plugin developers recommend protecting the firewall from collecting data at least for a week before activating it. In this section you can also set whitelisted rules and URLs, which are considered safe. Within this menu you will also find a tab called "Brute Force Protection". Here you can set rules to improve the security of your site, how to participate in events and editors to use the security password, decide after how many failed login attempts check accounts and for how long. ### 23. Best Free Wordpress Security Plugin I Have Used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam A. | Junior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Alright, first of all, and the best of all is free. It, naturally, has some paid or premium choices, but they aren't entirely necessary, to start with if you discover yourself satisfied with the functionality of all the plugin only added attributes. By scanning your website for links on fixed intervals every, as a safety plugin, it operates. Yeah, safety plugins do so, but what is great about this plugin is that it is lightweight. It is as if you do not have a safety plugin. It does not even make you or will not slow down the loading of your pages, or your visitors feel like something is running in the background. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I disabled live traffic as it eats up too much resources. It's not a big deal since I am already using another traffic tool to check my live traffic. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I strongly recommend the Wordfence safety plugin. There are several alternatives that you may configure to your likings. The free version is well worth it, and the version is well worth the cost. You need to play it safe with your WordPress websites. Every moment, minute, hour, day, week, month, etc. that our sites are down or infected, we're losing out on customers, traffic, and cash. It's lightweight, user-friendly, and compatible with the most recent versions of WordPress. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wordfence stopped all spammers on our site. It made my work less stressful than it was. ### 24. On The Spot Wordpress Security Plugin **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil K. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence permits you to replace files with their originals if you have not created a backup yourself. Now that is service! It also entails that the scan may take some time, depending on your site's dimensions. Done, you are given a list of security problems and recommendations that are comprehensive by Wordfence. What is notable about this is that Wordfence's manufacturers have each plugin and motif and a server with each WordPress version from the directory. That way and their mirror, the plugin may compare documents on your server and find. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Wordfence Security plugin is a great alternative for a WordPress safety setup. It is not the WordPress safety plugin. It places a substantial quantity of load. It messes up along with stores and your WordPress information a great deal of info. This plugin's user interface isn't so great. We believe it could be cleaned up a bit. The options page is overpowering, and there are alternatives. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** If done correctly, the same as any other Wordpress security plugins, Wordfence is powerful. All configurations have to be based on attackers and bots. It's a continuous effort to check your capabilities out. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wordfence is the hottest WordPress safety so. The free version offers plenty of features to maintain WordPress websites safe and away from spam lists. From a comprehensive security audit on a firewall for heaps of choices, the plugin is going to do its very best to keep other dishonest people and hackers. You can discover where dangers have tons of alternatives to make the plugin work depending on their requirements and to your website appear. That does not deny that safety is a complicated topic. Even though Wordfence is quite much "set it and forget it," to get the maximum from this plugin, users might need to do a little bit of work. ### 25. Complete Wordpress Protection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** HENRY N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Protest against malware and hack attacks. Helps check for vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the WordPress dashboard. Checks for updates, outdated files, corrupt databases and reports for fixing. Checks the login password and protects from unauthorized access and phishing attacks. Firewall from bots and DDOS attacks **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Could bounce out legitimate loggins and report false positive malware attacks. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I recommend wordpress as the best all round security plugin for wordpress, protecting from attacks and vulnerabilities. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protect WordPress from attack and vulnerability. Secure users and data integrity. Protect from DDOS attack and a phishing attempt ### 26. Protects Self Hosted Wordpress Sites **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raymond C. | Wordpress Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordpress is the CMS now, and it is accessible. Because of this, any Wordpress site now needs to have improved the best and most straightforward way to do it Wordfence and its safety. Go to the of your Wordpress Dashboard, wordfence is simple to install and hunt for wordfence, and then click it to set up. The Wordfence firewall is a useful attribute, and the thing is, even it will have defaulted to learning style whenever you have freshly set up the plugin for your WordPress website. It studies your site so that it can offer the most effective possible way your site could be protected by it. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** What I do not like much is the plugin has lots of settings and options, and it's somewhat complicated to configure at the start. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence is a plugin for self-hosted Wordpress sites, it permits you to forget and to set it so that you can tighten the safety of your site, and you can alter the settings. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** WordFence has blocked tens of thousands of security attacks, and it continues to do so. 10 to 50 strikes weekly are prevented by it. Knowing that we've got it installed on our site is a relief for us. ### 27. Great Wordpress Level Security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivo S. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is great, even for the free version. It allows me to scan my web files without consuming much resources and it does notify me of different version of files if any, unwanted files and infected files. Real time monitoring is also great as it tracks every incoming and outcoming traffic from your website. I also like how you can set the firewall for rate limiting features to prevent bruteforce attacks. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Real time monitoring eats up resources much, so I had to disable it sometimes if our website goes sluggish. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence is a great security plugin for wordpress sites. Free version is already packed with features. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Another layer of protection for our Wordpress install that makes us even more confident that the site is protected. ### 28. Great Wordpress Website Protection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark D. | Wordpress Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** I like the constant notifications and warnings of Wordfence, whether its an outdated plugin, a malicious file or any other kind of malware and virus threat. It also gives you the ability to rate limit visitors accessing your site especially bad bots, bad ips and others, especially for your login, registration pages. It also allows you to hide your wordpress version to reduce attacks from bots who are catered to attacking wordpress websites. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I miss Falcon. They should have not removed it as it works great for me. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** I completely recommend Wordfence as the free version is already rich of features to protect your wordpress installation. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** More secure wordpress website as it protects you from bruteforce, ddos attacks and virus and malwares. ### 29. Lightweight Security Plugin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Merina S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2020 **What do you like best about WordFence?** FIrst: Lightweight! Just disable the real time option because that eats up resources when you are on a shared hosting and if you do not really need that feature. Secondly: DDOS protection is amazing. Also has rate limiting settings you can adjust to your own preference. Lastly: Malware scanning and deletion is good. Also add the notifications it gives you and also the scanning of outdated plugins and malicious files. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** They should bring back Falcon, that is the only complaint I have. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Free version is already full of features. If you are still looking or not satisfied with your current security plugin, I highly recommend Wordfence. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** More security aside from the CDN security I added and even the server layer security I installed. ### 30. Excellent Protection For Wordpress Websites **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nomer H. | Junior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** I like how you can set Wordpress to stop bruteforce attacks to your liking. The firewall features are so in depth even for the free version and there are a lot of settings you can try based on what threat you are experiencing. With the rate limiting feature, you can further enhance the protection of your login and sign up page. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Live Traffic eats up too much resources so I had to disable it. We will enable it when we have already upgraded our server. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** This is the best (free version) Wordpress security plugin we have used so far. It is feature packed (we are just using the free version.) **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stopping bruteforce, ddos attacks, bad bots and other threats. ### 31. Tough Security For Wordpress Sites **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricky M. | Wordpress Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence notifies you about malicious plugins or executions within your site. Also, notifies you to update themes and plugins for security reasons. Wordfence also can remove threats on your site seamlessly. You can also use Wordfence to protect you from bruteforce and ddos attacks by setting up rate limiting features on your login and registration pages. It also has a realtime detection of incoming and outgoing connection from your site. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I actually like Wordfence and have settled for it since then. Nothing bad happened since I use it. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence has a free version and it totally is already fully featured. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better security for our wordpress site and such a light plugin to use. ### 32. You need this if you have a WordPress website. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd T. | Business Owner, Apparel & Fashion, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** WordFence is the only name that comes to my mind when it comes to WordPress website security. It has become the best and most used security plugin. It provides all the necessary features that you need to secure your website against all those nasty attacks and vulnerabilities. It blocks each and every attack on your website like a boss. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** WordFence free plugin is great and is more than sufficient for most users but the premium version is a bit costly in my opinion. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** WordFence is the tool that you need if you need a reliable security plugin and want the best possible security for your website. I recommend it fully. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Till date, WordFence has blocked thousands of security attacks on our website and it continues to do so. It blocks 15-20 attacks every week. Knowing that we have it installed on our website is a big relief for us. ### 33. Unreal Protection For Your Worpress Site **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence prevents bruteforce and ddos attacks. Also prevents bots and other human undesirable attacks. Wordfence protects you from malware with its great malware scanning and removal feature. Wordfence automatically blocks unwanted IP's by listing them on the blocklist. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I like wordfence a lot. I have not experience any bad thing about it since I installed its plugin and set everything. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence has not failed me since I started using it and it catches up with all the threats that arrived with our site. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Additional protection for wordpress site against bruteforce, ddos and malwares. ### 34. Protect your Wordpress website from attacks with Wordfence. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario M. | Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** It is the best tool I have used to protect my website from malicious attacks, by simply installing the plugin we can perform a quick scan by scanning our website for viruses, malicious codes and vulnerabilities. The plugin has an intuitive interface with a message guide to follow in order to configure it correctly. It is surprising the number of attacks that can be prevented, in just a few days of use we can see the traffic of our website and verify the suspicious ip addresses which the plugin automatically blocks. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** What I don't like very much is that the plugin has many options and it is a bit complex to configure at the beginning, for beginner users it can be overwhelming. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** It is an essential plugin for all those who use WordPress, if we want to keep our sites safe and functioning we must use Wordfence. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me protect my websites in WordPress in the best way. Thanks to this plugin I have been able to block attacks that come from different countries and IP addresses, keeping my website safe and functioning. ### 35. Secure Your Wordpress Site **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jun-young M. | Marketing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is an excellent security plugin for Wordpress. The free version offers features on par with paid security plugins. It has bruteforce protection where you can set the maximum tries of login. It also has IP blacklist and automatically list ip's executing bad behaviors. You can also hide your Wordpress version. Rate limiting feature for other executions you would like to limit to better protect your site from unnecessary logins. It also has a Malware Scanner and also alerts you when it finds one. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Live Traffic is definitely a good feature but it eats up a bunch of resources so we disabled it for now. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence is an excellent security plugin for Wordpress, consider using the Free version first which is already feature packed so you can try it out. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Malware scanner and bruteforce protection and ddos attack prevention. ### 36. If you have a WordPress website, you absolutely need WordFence! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd S. | Customer Support Specialist, Apparel & Fashion, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** In my opinion, WordFence is the best and most-trusted WordPress security plugin out there. It protects your website from every kind of security attack and constantly scans and monitors your website for possible security issues and alerts you if it finds any. It has protection against any kind of nasty attack that hackers use like DDOS, Brute Force, XMLPRC exploit etc and provides tons of scanning and blocking features. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** There are no downsides of using WordFence in my opinion. Only one thing that I would like to suggest is to lower the prices of the premium plan. The free plan is sufficient for most of the people but premium plan has some really useful features. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** My advice to anyone looking for a security plugin for their WordPress website is that WordFence is the only security plugin that you will need to protect your website against any possible attack or exploit. Do not take the security of your website lightly, people have lost so much just because of poor website security. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have WordFence installed on my WordPress website and till now it has prevented and blocked thousands of attacks on my website. ### 37. Great Wordpress Security Plugin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John L. | Junior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** I like how you can set to protect your site from bruteforce attacks. The rate limiting feature is outstanding. You can even hide your wordpress version to protect you from bots created specifically to attack wordpress sites. It also notifies you of plugins needed to be upgraded and also notifies you of malicious plugins or executions inside your site. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** So far, everything is working fine. No drawback experienced since I have used Wordfence. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** The free version is already fully featured and compared to other security plugins, this is by far the best I have tried. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Malware protection, bruteforce attack protection, spam protection. ### 38. Wordfence, A Great Wordpress Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anita B. | Junior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is an excellent security plugin for Wordpress. It prevents DDOS attacks, Bruteforce and others by setting a Rate Limiting factor for your website visitors, which locks them down or blocking them when the specific limit has been reached. Wordfence also gives you the ability to scan all your website files if it is infected or not. Wordfence also notifies you to update outdated plugins. Wordfence also has a feature which you can integrate recaptcha on login to better protect your admin and login pages. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Wordfence helped me a lot to secure our site and I definitely like what it is doing. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence works very well for me and it is lightweight considered to other security plugins I have tried with other projects before. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better Wordpress security and malware scanner for web files. ### 39. Good Wordpress Security If Done Right **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lai T. | Assistant Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Bruteforce protection, Rate Limiting factors, for bots and unwanted users, and able to hide wordpress version from bots. Malware File Scanning, tracking unknown files within wordpress and regular email reports. Those are the only things we use with Wordfence. All other securities including Firewall rules are administered within Litespeed Server and Cloudflare for another layer of protection. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Wordfence should also support recaptcha within the comments section not just within the login page. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Just like any other wordpress security plugins, Wordfence is pretty effective if done right. All settings must be based on your average visitors ratio with bots and attackers. It is a constant effort to always test out your rate limiting features. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Additional DDOS and Bruteforce Protection. ### 40. Easy to setup, great for intro to moderate traffic websites. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim D. | Network Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** The straight forwardness of it, how there are consistent updates and ability to use it without a license key but still if i choose to, upgrade to a more proficient plugin. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The Tool when doing a scan stops indications when changing to another screen on the computer not just another tab. Which can be annoying when tracking changes. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** When implementing, as with other protection/trojan detection tools, this is not the end of the road for finding the errors or hackers tools implemented within your site. It is a tool, of many you will come across and use. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Determining past due or out of date addons/plugins that are not being updated anymore. Also changes in files that should not occur unless updated by a core update. ### 41. Securing Your Wordpress Website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carrol D. | Web Developer, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordpress is the most popular CMS today and because of this, it is also a favorite to be attacked by hackers. With this reason, any Wordpress website today must have tighten it's security and what best and easiest way to do it it Wordfence. Wordfence is so easy to install, just go to the plugin page of your Wordpress Dashboard and search for wordfence, and just click it to install. The Wordfence firewall is a great feature and the good thing is, when you have just freshly installed the wordfence plugin to your wordpress site, it will first be defaulted to learning mode for about a week. It studies your website so it can provide the best possible way it could protect your website. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** I really like the Live Traffic feature, but it does eat up to much resources so I had to disable it. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence is a great security plugin for Wordfence, it allows you to just set it and forget, and you too can change the settings manually so you could tighten your sites security even more. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since I used Wordfence, bad bots and unwanted users have been blocked from accessing our site. ### 42. Wordfence is great for basic website security - especially if you know a little bit about security. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is perfect for web developers who know a bit about security in general, enough to install and setup basic security settings. It's even possible that some website owners who have learned how to install plug ins in thier admin interface can get by themselves without much tweaking, especially for smaller websites and situations in which lower security is needed. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** WordFence isn't the most secure software we've used. Sometimes malware gets through, especially on the free version. WordFence has many complex configuration options which are geared more towards experienced security professionals. Our web design clients sometimes want to install it themselves from the admin, but it's better that we install and manage it when the website is large or has a lot if custom programming. Some of the security settings in Wordfence might even be impressive to some security professionals, it seemed to be built for people with some security experience or knowledge. However, if you can barely install a new WordPress plug in as a site owner and don't understand security terminology, then Wotdfence might be difficult. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Use WordFence for smaller websites with less security needs. Use the premium WordFence version when possible. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** WordFence solves our clients security problems. It prevents WordPress from getting hacked or affected by malware on many cases. The security itself is not as secure as it could be, especially on the free version. ### 43. Great Wordpress plugin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff A. | Copywriter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** I don't know much about security, but what I do know is we use WordFence on our site and to the best of my knowledge we haven't had a single successful hack attempt on us. It is also easy to set up inside Wordpress because it's a plugin. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** One slightly bad thing was that it interfered with the saving of our page designs using Thrive Architect; however that was a long time ago and it doesn't do that anymore. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preventing hackers from attacking our site or trying to take it over. ### 44. It is the most complete suite of security in Wordpress **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emerson C. | Graphic Designer and Otolaryngologist , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** It has a very complete control panel that provides a lot of detailed information about the attacks that the website has suffered. I love the good management of statistics. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** It is not possible to create a blacklist by being a free user. I would have liked that at least I could use this option even in a limited way. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** WordFence has become my favorite option to keep all the web pages I develop in Wordpress protected. It is worth paying for this plugin since it does not represent a high price, especially if we are developing a website for a medium or large company. I highly recommend it. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** On my website I have it installed as an add-on in Wordpress and it has given me a lot of protection against spam attacks. I am currently using the free version and it has been very good, I have not had any problems setting it up and WordFence warns me when there is an attack through email alerts. ### 45. Bruteforce Protection For Wordpress **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nimmit H. | Technical Support Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Rate Limiting Feature - can set limit on how many times a user can try to login before locking out. Bruteforce Protection - can detect bruteforce bots and lock them out. Can hide Wordpress version. Can integrate Google Recaptcha at login page to filter out bots trying to login. Sends regular updates to your email on what is going on with the site. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Live Traffic eats up resources too much. I have disabled it. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** Wordfence is a great tool for your wordpress websites security. The free version is already fully featured with the essential tools to protect a wordpress website. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bruteforce protection and rate limiting feature for visitors trying to access the admin area. ### 46. Must have Wordpress security solution for an incredible price **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darien C. | Associate Pastor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Wordfence is a security solution that is a must-have for anyone serious about protecting their wordpress site on a budget. I have been using this product for approximately 2 years, and have been constantly impressed with the ease-of-use and versatile protections offered by Wordfence. For free, Wordfence provides an automatic scan for virus' on your site - and a scan for any changes to any files on your site (which can alert you of a hack or attempted hack); offering you an easy way to roll-back any unauthorized changes right from within your site. Furthermore, it offers a built-in firewall that records any malicious attempts at accessing the site and automatically blocks them according to your configuration. Furthermore, it records all traffic through the site, and will provide you with a warning of any failed login attempts & potentially malicious visits to your site. Overall, Wordfence gives an intensive overview of the health of your website & keeps it safe - all for free. While they do offer a paid version, I have been solely relying on the strengths of the free product. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** There is a lot to configure in order to set up your site properly, which can be fairly difficult to configure & manage if you are new to using this product. While all the settings are beneficial and provide intensive protections, they can also be fairly confusing to configure properly if you are not an expert, forcing you to rely on their intensive explanations & google to figure out if a setting is important/compatible with your site. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** If you are looking for a high-quality & cheap security option for your wordpress site, definitely pick up Wordfence! **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Free website protection ### 47. Crucial for WordPress security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian T. | Christian Taylor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** WordFence secures your WordPress website on a budget! I've always used the free version and it protects my websites perfectly. Before, I had WordPress sites getting brute force hacks, but after installing WordFence, I am always in the know when someone is trying to breach any of my websites and I can take the appropriate actions to make sure it stays safe and secure. **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The emails it sends by default when plugins need to be updated are rather annoying. You can disable this in settings, but when it's the default setting and you manage tons of WordPress websites for clients, it can become irritating when you forget to disable them. **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** WordFence is the best free security solution for WordPress websites. I have not tried their premium version and I am not sure if it would be the best solution if you want to pay for one, but if you are looking for something free, you cannot go wrong with WordFence. **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** WordFence saves me time because it dramatically lowers the incident rate of my websites as well as the websites of my clients. This allows me to work more efficiently, gives my clients and I peace of mind, and also protects my reputation as a WordPress developer because my clients know their sites are safe and secure. ### 48. THEY WILL LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR OWN SITE REPEATEDLY!! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** It does block some contacts from spammy contacts. But only some contacts not all and this is for the paid version! But do understand at least once a year these idiots lock me out of my own site. They blacklist the owner of the site because you visit it so often! **What do you dislike about WordFence?** The keep blocking me from accessing my own site every year for the 3 years we used the premium version of the program! They do this and you have to contact them by submitting a ticket and waiting 24 hours for them to get back to you! You cannot even see your site when they block you! It is ridiculous they do not take stock of the IP addresses that access it properly! I cannot understand how this is happening. But it is super frustrating and you cannot call them! Just submit tickets and wait for them to care! **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** DO NOT DO IT!!! Choose other types of defensive Plugins! They do not do a good job with making sure to block the bad and will block you from your own site and then you have to just wait to get back into your site until they have time to get back to you! AND GOD HELP YOU IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PREMIUM LEVEL!! THEY WILL NOT RESPOND! I HAVE PREMIUM AND THEY STILL DO NOT CARE ABOUT ACCESS TO MY SITE BEING RESTORED!! **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** They do block SOME NOT ALL of the contacts from spammy and malicious contacts but honestly I think we would be better off just using the WPMU Dev or CleanTalk to stop this mess. We currently have all three and I am super disappointed. I have been using the IP banning options to try to stop the connections from spammers trying to hack out site but I have to manually enter the IP addresses! Other paid plugins work better and do it automatically! YET THEY KEEP "Automatically" Banning MY IP ADDRESS! IT IS A HEADACHE YOU SHOULD AVOID!!! ### 49. Great security plugin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Its simple to setup and edit to your needs for your specific site. With guides everywhere. I love the ai it uses to find spam traffic and blocks them automatically. I also love the virus scan, **What do you dislike about WordFence?** Amount if resources it uses, ie my site runs our of resources before a full scan is finished. I can edit the times but normal users may not know how **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had some issues and thought I had a virus, so I installed wordfence to run a scan and found malicious code which it then helped me to remove and quarantine. ### 50. Reliable, robust **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dimiter k. | Chief Technology Officer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about WordFence?** Scanner, Especially High Sensitivity scan,WAF, weekly security digest, **What do you dislike about WordFence?** No such thing. Except it might load the server because its WAF is not cloud based . However it's insignificant **Recommendations to others considering WordFence:** The best for its price which is $99,99/year **What problems is WordFence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security issues on a WordPress site. The scanner is one of the best. 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