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Hello,

It seems Perfect Dashboard is injecting those IP addresses automatically, so they won't be blocked.
I think you should get in touch with them, those files are not part of Admin Tools: they are using freely available script developed by Akeeba.

It should be self-understood, but ANY AND ALL SOFTWARE YOU INSTALL INSIDE JOOMLA CAN READ AND WRITE TO YOUR DATABASE AND configuration.php BY DEFINITION. I am typing this in all caps because it is VERY IMPORTANT. The weakest link in cybersecurity is humans - especially those with misconceptions about what the software does and doesn't.

Please note that neither Perfect Dashboard nor any other service can magically install software on your site. You or someone else with admin access on the site or the server gave them permission to. Firewalls are designed to keep unauthorized users outside of the system. Authorized users, like you, are supposed to get in. If the authorized user logs in and allows the installation of software that violates his trust that's not the concern of the firewall.

Finally, we cannot notify you for every change made to the database. This is not unwillingness or incompetence. Doing so would require to have a way to know the previous state so we can compare it with the current state. If that was either a database entry or a file the software that injects the additional entry would simply change that "memory", therefore nullifying the point of its existence. At the same time we would need to make a plethora of database queries on each and every page load on your site making your site unbearably slow. To me, this kind of "feature" is outright stupid: it offers no added benefit, it can be circumvented trivially and it's just an nuissance. It would only make people wonder "what were you thinking". Pretty much like the gate depicted below.