Up until May 18th, I would get about 3 alerts per day indicating that my hosting provider (IP xx.xx.xx.xx) was locked out of my website for too many attempts to access a file that does not exist.

Furthermore, the plugin blocks Googlebot, MSNbot, Yahoobot... essentially it causes your organic rank to plummet.

After reading, I can see this is a major bug in iThemes Security.

Now, I'm getting locked out of my own site about 3-4 times per day, with an inability to access it using my login ID.

The impression I get is that iThemes placed into circulation an pre-alpha release of this product, charged for the premium product, used the money generated to turn it into a beta product, and so on and so forth.

You don't release plugins that cause this much grief to people. It should have been tested for 6 months prior to release with real blog sites. When you invent a new drug, do you test it out on human babies before doing preclinical tox and testing on animals?

So what do you get with the paid version, Xanax, or perhaps a steel shovel to render yourself unconscious until it's all over?

This plugin has potential, however the way it was introduced is inexcusable.