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Joomla! version: 2.5.7
PHP version: 5.4
MySQL version: 5.5
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Admin Tools version: 2.5.7

Description of my issue:
Read some articles about Admin Tools and it now appears that it works with .htaccess too.
As my hosting provider uses IIS, there is no .htaccess file used... Does this affect the setup I made regarding black listed IP addresses? I noticed that, althought I blacklist an IP address, I still receive messages from Admin Tools, saying that this ip user had visited the site, together with this message:

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Wij willen u op de hoogte brengen dat een beveiligingsuitzondering is gedetecteerd op uw website Archipelschool De Leeuwenburch met de volgende gegevens:

IP Adres: 208.115.111.72
Reden: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=208.115.111.72

Als dit soort beveiligingsuitzonderingen zich blijft herhalen, log dan in op de back-end van uw website en voeg dit IP-adres toe in uw Admin Tools 'Web Applicatie Firewall' functie om de zich misdragende gebruiker volledig te blokkeren.

Met vriendelijke groet,
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thanks,
Jos Chrispijn
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. As there are more often hosting providers that provide J! under IIS, I think it will be very good for the Admin Tools to support iirf.ini.
As .htaccess it is a plain text file. What I now do to block attackers is this; I put the following text into the irrf.ini file

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#IP blocklist
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(1.2.3.4)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(78.178.186.41)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(78.178.186.41)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(95.108.151.244)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(208.115.113.88)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(178.154.243.116)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(95.108.150.235)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(208.115.111.72)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(109.120.157.179)(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(84.84.110.202)(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ / [F]
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Would it be possible for only blocking ip's to add an extra option in the config in which one can choose for either .htaccess or .iirf.ini? You then only have to generate a RewriteCond line.
I will be happe to test it for you.

Will have a check on the outdated text and see if I can change it somewhere.

Thanks,
Jos Chrispijn
[email protected]

Makes sense; I wouldn't either if I were you.
I will develop a script myself that is triggered from within my mailclient (Thunderbird) on email containing alerts coming from AdminTools. It will filter the ip address from it and put it into iirf.ini. Should be very easy for a nub like me :-)
Thanks,
Joombler