Joomla's redirection component will hijack all 404 requests. If there is a redirection in place it will redirect you. When there is none set up it will record the URL accessed and how many times it was accessed.
Our feature will only work when there is an unhandled 404. If the file they are trying to access is something in the configured list instead of throwing a 404 error page we record a security exception.
Since Joomla's redirection plugin does not let any 404s pass through (in order to record unhandled URLs) it masks our 404Shield feature.
You can edit the System - Redirect plugin and set Collect URLs to False. This will prevent Joomla from collecting all unhandled URLs. However, this means that you no longer see records in your database about the attempts to access non-existent .php files. On the other hand, this lets our 404Shield feature work, therefore you get better protection against what is most definitely an attack on your site.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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