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I bought this extension after having a couple of sites hacked. It immediately demonstrated it's worth going by the reports of attempts on my sites. There were a couple of issues when I upgraded to the latest version, but was pleasantly surprised and impressed by the speed and amount of effort put in by Helix and the team in investigating and fixing this to my complete satisfaction.

If you are thinking about buying this extension, stop thinking and go ahead!

On the Internet, security is always a concern. For that reason, this extension is very important and necessary for any website alive on the net. Not only the OSE team present a good service for their costumers but only they have very friendly and good support and more than even they do more than their responsibility,
I had a problem with re- directing and i thought this is OSE problem, they find out the problem and helped me to fix it, but the problem was not totally OSE issue and had not noting to do with this extension. Well done.
Reza

Besides offering a great product that works, these guys really offer outstanding support. Unlike other extension developers they don't just reference a link where you have to read it and try to figure things yourself. These guys offer hands on support! I highly recommend this product. Thanks so much for all your help Helix and Shawn...

Sadly, there are so many hackers (especially for Joomla) this product is necessary! I highly recommend it and the customer service has been fast and great.

I have been building Joomla! sites for over 5 years and during this time, one persistent issue open source sites seem to suffer is that of hacks.

Although this developer has detailed instructions listed for their Anti-Hacker Suite for install and testing, I was having trouble getting back into my site's back end after the test phase was initialized.

OSE support not only solved the problem, but they achieved this in record time, based on what I am used to dealing with regarding third party extensions.

So far so good and hats off to OSE! This is a product that is well worth the $'s spent, if not for the tech support alone.

Keep up the excellence OSE!

What can I say. These guys went out on a limb to help me out. Had a few issues with install but the support you receive is second to none. The product has stopped 7 hack attempts in the last 3 days. It brings peace of mind and saves you a ton of money in the long run. Don't hesitate just buy it. You won't be sorry...

I bought this after my third hack in 2 years.

Can't believe all the infected files the antivirus found even after the hosting company said they cleaned it.

This is a must have for joomla. Ever wondered if you had some files altered or had files inserted into your joomla install? This will find them and help to stop them.

Like all antivirus products, false alarms are likely so be careful.

thank you

I've setup a few sites for customers of mine with this extension. I wouldn't recommend running a commercial based sight without it. I'm quite pleased with this software, and it's ease of installation & signature updates. It's saved 1 site so far and helped me find and disable a loose extensions vulnerability.

Open Source Excellence will have my business for future sites I construct from here on out so long as they keep doing what they're doing.

I had a crazy attack on december 24th, and after delete all my content to start over, i got hacked again :(. Then i found this suite and they save my life! the support its incredible, and the suite works perfect, detect the suspicious and the really intents, they guide me trought the installation process and the results where amazing, had no attacks, the scripts still clean and the attacks controlled. i think that so far this is the best purchase i made for my clients.

I have owned this suite for nearly 2 months now, and the bottom line is that it does what it was intended to do...

But not w/out some caveats. There were a number of bugs that occurred along the way. Installation is not simple although it is fairly well-documented.

The anti-hacker picks up a number of site-wide false-positives, although you can supposedly tone down the sensitivity of its detection. The anti-virus scanning picks up many false positives, and the nature of the alerts are not explained well. I would be nice if the supposedly malicious code could be displayed in the anti-virus itself (via popup or link), instead of having to pour through the all of the code itself to find the source of the error, or worse, having to look at a before/after snapshot of the cleaned/uncleaned files. It's inconvenient and time consuming.

It even picked up a false positive when scanning ITSELF after fresh installation.

Having to manually enter false positive strings in the anti-hacker is also very inconvenient. (GET, POST, COOKIE).

There issues w/ the file scanner, where it will not refresh after finishing the scan of a large joomla site (12k+files).

Basically, the product does not feel polished to me. The beta version of the file scanner that OSE installed (after submitting a support ticket) worked better and had more continuity in terms of the interface.

All that being said, the product stopped all of the issues we were having immediately. It does what it says, and the support was very good as well. It's money well-spent, and I would recommend it to anyone who asked. But I would issue a warning w/ my recommendation. This software IMO needs a bit of polishing in order to truly shine.

I use the Security Suite for the websites of all my customers and I can tell you that the suite does a great job.
And above all the Support of the OSE team is excellent. I recommend this Suite to you.

Tjaard

I really love this suite:

Less expensive than securelive and file scanning built in(securelive wants 190$ per site for the same results.

Ose answers support email and purchases within 5-10 minutes.

The software is rock solid and stopped my hack attempts straight away.

Buy this or regret it...i promise.

If you have ever been hacked you know the humiliation and anger it can cause, mainly because you know it should never have happened if you were doing your job right.

This security suite makes it very easy to secure all of your sites if they are subdirectories of a common root. This is the most common setup for commercial hosts.

It will require a little reading of the very well written documentation and maybe a couple of questions to support which will be answered quickly and in detail, but once you've done it you will have mastered it.

I can't recommend the OSE Security Suite highly enough. It will be a part of my tool box from now on. Don't be caught off guard again. Protect yourself and your clients. Buy OSE today !

Leon Smith

I am administrating a website of a very large government organization that have more than 300,000.00 staff with thousands of enemies, before i start using php anti-hacker, my website was being hacked twice a week, and me poor was re-uploading the whole thing again and again.

But when i started using this extraordinary tool, It just kicked hackers and made my life easy, since January 2010, it detected more than 500 hacking activities and blocked the hackers IPs, WOW, world of thanks to OSE.

I'll simply say that there is no doubt that OSE-PHP Security Suite has outstanding performance, extensive features, quite clear, detailed and totally useful user manuals and extraordinary customer support.

Mr. paxxo must be encountering lack of perception and understanding, I advise him to review all the user manuals in detail before using this awesome extension.

Shamshad

This is my first review in Joomla Extensions, I did because of the bad review that "Paxxo" gave to one of the best extensions ever for joomla, this extension literally save my site and believe me when I say that I still be trying to clean my site but OSE Security extensions help me all the way to clean the site, I have no complain, nothing is perfect but this extension ROCKS!!!!

I have to buy Open Source PHP Security Suite but the information for install it´s unsatisfying. It´s not clear and loose the proceudure of installation. Instruction information it´s very por and loose. I could not install the product and the support service is can not give adequate information.

This product came just in the nick of time. I was being marked by a hacker from indonesia who was defacing me and hundreds of other Joomla sites across the internet and this product was my answer to his attacks. This suite allowed me to go step-by-step and secure my website. Im going to suggest that all of my clients use this component to secure their websites. I am so happy that I can sleep easy now that I have a true security solution for my web clients.

a Must have for web developers.

Not only is this a fantastic bit of kit, but the support is outstanding and it is great value for money because you can use it on as many sites as you want.

I use either the standalone Security Suite or the Joomla extensions on all my sites now.

Helix is a star when it comes to support. I had a Wordpress Multisite installation with a Joomla site in a subfolder. This meant I could not password protect the Joomla admin because Wordpress rerouted that URL to the front page....

Excluding the Joomla folder from the WP .htaccess did not work either, but Helix came up with a solution within hours and now I have the best of both worlds.

After reading all the reviews, and comparing different security components and plugins I decided to purchase this suite. The reviews seemed great, and the features surpassed all other options. The installation was a breeze, just follow the instructions and you are done in a few minutes. After installation I ran into a problem that confused me, and I could not solve (regarding 500 internal server errors). I couldn't find a solution in the OSE wiki (which seems pretty decent) so I got a support ticket and I had a solution the next night. All I had to do was provide my FTP details and Helix fixed it for me. Very happy customer! The best customer service I have ever had. Quick, polite, and professional. Well worth every cent, definitely recommended!

I was hacked first, and then got religion. I had restored the 4 websites that were hacked and then looked for the best prevention tool. I could have saved a lot of time by using the suite to simply removed all traces of the hack instead of restoring the sites manually.

Documentation is sketchy, but not bad. Most importantly, the tool works as advertised, and the support is phenomenal. I highly recommend to everyone.