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Lots More To Come!
If BPS Pro seems intimidating to you do not worry – BPS Pro is a “Smart Plugin”. What is a Smart Plugin? BPS Pro is designed to check everything in real time. If something is not done that needs to be done BPS Pro alerts you about it. If something is set up incorrectly BPS Pro displays alerting and warning messages and provides Help info and links on what needs to be corrected. BPS Pro also contains extensive Help Hover Tooltips throughout all the Plugin pages.
At this point in the evolution of BPS Pro it is safe to say that BPS Pro is by far the most comprehensive, effective and complete Website Security Solution for WordPress websites. The BPS Pro .htaccess files contain a massive amount of new Security Exploits Filters to block browser based hacking attempts, the php.ini files contain optimum Security and Performance settings for maximum security and performance boosts for WordPress websites, file locking on the fly for WordPress Mission Critical files to protect against Mass Code Injection attacks on Web Hosts, PHP Error logging, automatic HTTP 403 Error Logging to log and track hacking attempts against your website, built-in Monitoring and Alerting, extensive System Info and lots more. We are not stopping here – Lots More To Come!
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BPS Pro 5.1.7 released on 5-06-2012
BulletProof Security Pro 5.1.7 Specs |
BulletProof Security Pro 5.1.7 PHP Memory Usage > 360KB > .36MB |
BulletProof Security Pro 5.1.7 Total Disk Size > 2.01MB |
BulletProof Security Pro 5.1.7 Performance > Increases Website Performance |
Known issues or problems or potential problems
Potential problem: No Problems Reported – Upgrading WordPress 3.3.1 to WordPress 3.3.2 – AutoRestore Alert
Solution: When upgrading WordPress 3.3.1 to WordPress 3.3.2 you will see a Warning message that AutoRestore needs to be turned off before upgrading to WP 3.3.2. Turn Off AutoRestore, upgrade to WP 3.3.2, go back to the AutoRestore options page, click the Backup Files Now button and turn AutoRestore back On. If you forget to click the Backup Files Now button before turning the AutoRestore Cron back on then you will see an AutoRestore alert that a file has been restored. The file that was restored was wp-comments-post.php because the WP folks made a change to this file. To get the new wp-comments-post.php file in WP 3.3.2, turn Off AutoRestore, Reinstall WP 3.3.2, go back to the AutoRestore options page, click the Backup Files Now button before turning AutoRestore back On.
Problem: 2 PHP Errors are displayed in the PHP error log when upgrading WordPress
[13-Dec-2011 14:41:26] PHP Warning: copy(/home/content/xx/xxxxx/html/verum/wp-blog-header.php) [<a href='function.copy'>function.copy</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/content/xx/xxxxx/html/verum/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 200
[13-Dec-2011 14:41:26] PHP Warning: copy(/home/content/xx/xxxxx/html/verum/index.php) [<a href='function.copy'>function.copy</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/content/xx/xxxxx/html/verum/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 200
Solution: You can ignore these 2 errors and just reset your PHP error log Last Modified Time. During the upgrade to WP 3.3 these 2 files (wp-blog-header.php and index.php) were overwritten / copied successfully, but the copy function generated a PHP Warning error because the files were previously Read Only. You will also see displayed warnings that these 2 files are now unlocked. Click on either link displayed in these BPS displayed alerts to AutoLock these files.
Problem: Minor issue with the WordPress PCLZIP Upload Zip installer appending a number after the bulletproof-security folder name when using the WordPress Zip installer to install BPS Pro. Example: /bulletproof-security2, /bulletproof-security3, etc.
Solution: Rename the bulletproof-security folder name from bulletproof-security2, bulletproof-security3, etc., to just bulletproof-security by removing the appended number from the folder name.
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157 Responses to “BulletProof Security Pro Questions, Comments & FAQ”
can you scan a site, (before) installing the plugin to see the security issues, (if any) and how much is that software, if available?
We do not offer any sort of scanning service. Here are the pitfalls of website scanners. They can only look for what they are told to look for, which is malicious code signatures. What scanners cannot detect is hacker files that have legitimate php functions in them. There are plenty of plugins that claim they can find all hacker files, but they are of course full of it.
So honestly it comes down to monitoring files that you know are good for any changes or if new files have been introduced / uploaded into your Hosting Environment – this is the only sure way to know what is legitimate and what is not – a scanner cannot magically do this. The future of BPS Pro is going in the direction of monitoring all files and autorestoring them and we have a new feature that we have not announced yet. These new features will be available in the coming future versions of BPS Pro.
Hi
Is there support for SSL with this plugin?
Thanks
Can you be more specific? If you are using SSL and have a valid SSL certificate then BPS Pro works fine on websites using SSL.
I just got the proversion, and on a new install 3.3.2 , I added the BPS, and click to go to the Launch S-Monitor but absolutely nothing shows up. Below the 3 yellow notices the screen is in blank. It is a brand new install and I just added the plugin after so not sure what to do?
Thanks,
Don
Hello,
The API Server log shows that the BPS Pro Activation Key you are entering is missing a dot ( . ) on the end of the Activation Key. Please type in the dot and resave your Activation Key. Thank you.
I am unclear about updating WordPress while BPS Pro is active. Do we need to turn off AutoRestore, unlock the locked files, then do the WordPress update, then re-lock the files and then update the time under AutoRestore and then turn AutoRestore back on?
And what about when we update BPS now? Say from 5.1.5-Pro to 5.1.6-Pro, and then from 5.1.6-Pro onward? Is the internal upload and upgrade functionality going to take care of all of the above automatically?
Or is none of that stuff in the 1st paragraph I wrote *ever* necessary?
And has all this been documented somewhere? — because I couldn’t find it.
And sorry to be so obtuse.
AutoRestore needs to be turned off when updating WordPress and once you have finished updating WordPress you would click the AutoRestore Backup Files Now button to create new AutoRestore backup files and turn AutoRestore back on. No need to unlock files, the WP updater will automatically chmod / unlock files if they need to be replaced or modified during the update / upgrade.
BPS Pro 5.1.7 will contain direct upgrade installation coding so that BPS Pro 5.1.8 can be installed directly from within the WP Dashboard instead of having to use the zip upload installer. Or if you are asking if we are going to code BPS to automatically turn off AutoRestore when an WP upgrade is available then no we will not be doing that because we found that a displayed notification is 100% effective and an automatic “turn off” has a margin of error of about 1%, due to all the possible different website configurations and many other factors that are very difficult to predict and calculate with 100% accuracy. A 1% margin of error is not acceptable.
Documentation can be found under the Read Me button on the AutoRestore page and also here — http://www.ait-pro.com/aitpro-blog/3894/bulletproof-security-pro/autorestore-cm-automatic-file-restore-countermeasure-help-and-faq/
Thanks
Thank you.
Holy crap, I just saw a lot of this was documented above. Was that already there when I commented? Sorry.
Yep too funny, but in your defense the AITpro site is definitely in need of restructuring and redesign. At this point things are a bit cluttered and disorganized.
After we release BPS Pro 5.1.7, we are going to be doing a redesign of the AITpro site.
Hello
I have BulletProof Security Pro 5.1.6 Plugin
I get this error message:
Fatal error: Cannot_actlinks() (previously declared in /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bulletproof-security.php
I can not activate the plugin.
What should I do?
thank you P.Color
Use FTP or your Web Host Control Panel File Manager and delete all bulletproof-security folders in your /plugins folder. Then use the WordPress Upload Zip installer and install BPS Pro. Follow the BPS Pro First Time installation steps here — http://www.ait-pro.com/aitpro-blog/3139/bulletproof-security-pro/bulletproof-security-pro-zip-installation-zip-backup-and-download/
Thank you.
I installed the free version without an issue. When I removed the plugin to upgrade to the Pro version, I get a Fatal Error Below. Please advise as I am a novice. Thanks, Harry
The theme has encountered a problem that it cannot recover from. Please use the following information to try to resolve the problem.
Hello,
The bulletproof-security plugin folder is named bulletproof-security-take-2 in the error message, which is not valid. Use FTP or your Web Host Control Panel File Manager and rename the bulletproof-security-take-2 folder to just bulletproof-security. Also please see this BPS Pro First Time installation help post for additional installation info. http://www.ait-pro.com/aitpro-blog/3139/bulletproof-security-pro/bulletproof-security-pro-zip-installation-zip-backup-and-download/. Thank you.