wail2ban
fail2ban, for windows. (by glasnt)
EvlWatcher
a "fail2ban" style modular log file analyzer for windows (by devnulli)
wail2ban | EvlWatcher | |
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2 | 5 | |
186 | 341 | |
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0.6 | 5.1 | |
over 3 years ago | 3 months ago | |
PowerShell | C# | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wail2ban
Posts with mentions or reviews of wail2ban.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-16.
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35,000 failed logon attempts in Windows Event Viewer > Security
If you can I'd recommend setting up pfsense or something similar between your home network and the outside internet. If you cannot, perhaps try to set this up. I've never used it but was curious if it existed as I've heard of the linux version (fail2ban) for years. It automatically will add firewall rules to block IP's based on conditions you set like failed logon attempts.
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Remote Desktop - block IP after too many failed?
Wail2Ban is Fail2Ban for Windows: https://github.com/glasnt/wail2ban
EvlWatcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of EvlWatcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-05.
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Hetzner abuse ticket saved my bacon
1) Run "EvlWatcher": https://github.com/devnulli/EvlWatcher
- Windows VPS, VPN, RDP
- Azure Hosted VMs being targeted - Help?
- Analysis of a large brute force attack campaign against Windows Remote Desktop
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Remote Desktop - block IP after too many failed?
EvlWatch is pretty lightweight and works decently well. https://github.com/devnulli/EvlWatcher
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wail2ban and EvlWatcher you can also consider the following projects:
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ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
ts_block - Blocks IP addresses generating invalid Terminal Services logons
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!
ts_block - Blocks IP addresses generating invalid Terminal Services logons