Firewallscript Review - Does Firewallscript Work?

Posted by Paddy | May 27, 2008 .

Firewallscript (firewall script - not sure which is correct) is an amazing peice of software that takes complete control of you website or blogs security. Here is what the developers say about it…

“Firewall Script offers unparalleled protection against web based attacks for any website supporting PHP. Never before has this level of protection been available without costly routers or hardware.”

The Benifits: -

Can work with any PHP script
Included admin control panel allows full configuration of the software
Support for multiple administrators. You can add, edit, and delete accounts from the admin panel.
Admin panel update notification and news feeds keep you up to date on FWS
Fully configurable DOS protection allows you to block access to your site for a user when they have multiple requests in a short period of time
Fully configurable rules
CAPTCHA support in rules allows you to show a CAPTCHA verification on any matched request
Akismet integration allows you to do everything you can with rules when submitted text is identified as spam
Admin login logs allow you to keep track of which administrators are using the admin panel
Traffic logs for all traffic on your site (archived daily)
Blocked request logs show you what was blocked and show you everything PHP had available during the request so you can review blocked requests
Spam logs show you requests identified as spam through Akismet
DOS logs show you requests identified as DOS attacks and subsequently blocked
Help section gives you quick access to support for the software
Specify rule title, notes and category for your own referencing and categorization
Ability to log requests blocked by rule
Ability to get email notifications for requests blocked by rules
For requests matching a rule you can allow the request, exit script execution, show an error, show specified HTML, redirect to another page, execute a custom php plugin, or even show a CAPTCHA verification
Ability to look in all PHP superglobals
Full regex power gives you the ability to look for what you want, where you want

I have just purchased a copy myself and I must say the features are just amazing! I appear to have blocked several potential attacks in the last hour. I highly recommend you take a look. If you are serious about your websites then you need this software! So does Firewallscript work? YES it does!

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