Your site gets requests from all over the world — and most of them were never your audience. Bots probing your login, scrapers, spam, from places you've never sold to. MalCare lets you block entire countries in a few clicks: their requests are dropped before they ever reach your server. Less risk, less load — and one click to reverse.
Trusted by 400,000+ websites across 120 countries
You serve customers in a handful of countries. Your server serves the whole planet — password guesses, vulnerability probes, scrapers, comment spam, from everywhere. That's cost and risk with zero upside, and you're not wrong to want those doors shut.
Read: the classic signs — CPU spikes, host warnings about resource use, floods of failed logins, a site that goes down for no visible reason — are what the right-hand map feels like from inside.
A tight cluster — the countries you actually serve.
YOUR MARKETEverywhere. Probes, password guesses, scrapers, spam.
COST & RISKCountry blocking is built into the MalCare firewall — no separate plugin, no code, no IP lists. From that moment, requests from blocked countries are dropped before they reach your site and see a 403.
In the MalCare dashboard, pick your site on the Sites screen and click the globe icon.
Choose from the dropdown — each one you pick joins the block list at the bottom of the screen.
That's the whole job. Requests from those countries are dropped at the edge from that moment.
Thousands of .htaccess lines of IP ranges, updated monthly — where one typo takes the whole site down.
THE OLD PROJECTA dropdown. Country-to-IP mapping is the firewall's job, kept current for you — you never touch a database or a file.
A DROPDOWNEvery country you don't serve but leave open is attack surface. Block it, and that region's login attempts, probes, and spam simply never arrive — no PHP runs, no database is queried, no bandwidth is spent.
Read: blocking happens at the firewall's edge, not on your server — so a blocked region reduces load instead of adding "blocking work." Your hosting resources go back to the people you actually serve, and your analytics start reflecting your market instead of the crowd.
The whole world — mostly traffic you never wanted.
EVERYWHEREBlocked countries stop dead. No PHP, no database, no bandwidth.
DROPPEDOnly who you serve — a thinner, cleaner stream.
YOUR MARKETA blocked region's brute-force attempts, vulnerability probes, and spam never arrive at all.
SURFACE, SHRUNKDropped requests burn none of your CPU or bandwidth — your resources go to real visitors.
LIGHTERMetrics reflect your market, not the crowd — conversion rates you can actually plan on.
CLEANERDon't guess. The firewall logs every request with its origin — open View Firewall Logs and see which countries send the most requests, and whether they're legitimate. Lots of login attempts and no customers isn't an audience. It's a botnet.
Read: the login logs make the call obvious — a flood of failing logins from a country with no customers is a password-cracking campaign, not traffic. Block from evidence, not headlines.
Medium volume, almost all successful — your audience.
SERVEHuge volume, almost all failed — a password-cracking campaign.
BLOCKCheck the logs — block from evidence, not headlines.
YOUR CALLOn its own, country blocking is a fence with gaps — IP ranges drift, and a VPN hops the border. That's exactly why MalCare's geoblocking lives inside the firewall instead of standing alone.
Read: an IP arriving through a VPN or proxy gets its behavior analyzed by the firewall — if it's malicious, it's blocked anyway. The border keeps the region out; the firewall keeps the actor out.
Requests from blocked countries stop at the border.
GEOBLOCKA VPN hops the fence — and meets behavior analysis at your site.
STILL BLOCKEDVisitors from allowed countries never notice either line.
UNTOUCHEDTrue — which is why the border has a guard. VPN and proxy IPs get behavior analysis, and malicious ones are blocked anyway.
COVEREDYou never maintain a list. Country mapping is the firewall's job, kept current continuously.
NOT YOUR JOBDecide from your own logs, not folklore — and unblocking is one click, effective immediately. No code was edited, so nothing can break.
REVERSIBLECorrect. Geoblocking shrinks the surface; the other layers guard what stays open. It's a control, not a substitute.
PART OF 7 LAYERSMalCare's bot protection already convicts bad actors by behavior across 400,000+ sites — wherever they come from, including the countries you serve. Geoblocking is the manual control beside it: regions you have no reason to serve, switched off outright.
You choose, by country. Doors closed — requests never even reach the queue.
YOUR SWITCHAutomatic, by behavior. Doors guarded — bad actors filtered request-by-request, worldwide.
ALWAYS ONBelt and braces, one dashboard — and both come with the plugin.
Geoblocking is the surface-area control in MalCare's 7-layer security — the one you hold.
Shrinks the surface — whole regions switched off, by your call.
THE SWITCHManages non-human volume — the crowd never reaches your server.
THE DOORBlocks attack payloads — exploits inside individual requests.
THE PERIMETERFinds whatever slips through, wherever it hides.
THE SEARCHLIGHTRecords every hand that touches the site.
THE RECORDEvery door on one screen — flip any of them without touching code.
Real customers — quotes from our reviews and case studies.
Best login protection ever! We handle hundreds of sites, and I'd heard bad stories about brute force attacks & password hacking… but thankfully we never had to worry about this because of MalCare. I'm sure this saved us from many sleepless nights!
I was on the beach with my family when MalCare notified me of a plugin vulnerability across 50 of my sites. With one click on my smartphone, all sites were fixed within minutes.
Paul LaceyWordPress ExpertI had been running iThemes, WordFence & Sucuri, but they kept getting hacked. Then I installed MalCare, which quickly found the malware and cleaned up the entire site.
Adam SilverConciergeWP · FounderAn Access Denied (403) page. Their request is dropped at the edge — your server does no further work for them.
As many as you want — pick them from the dropdown and each joins your block list. Some site owners block everything outside the countries they actually serve.
Yes. Go back to the GeoBlocking screen and remove the country from your list — traffic resumes immediately. Because nothing was ever edited on your site, nothing can break.
Some try. IPs arriving through VPNs and proxies get behavior analysis from the firewall, and malicious ones are blocked anyway. The border keeps the region out; the firewall keeps the actor out.
This is the classic geoblocking risk — search crawlers, uptime monitors, backup services, and payment webhooks live in specific countries. Check your firewall logs before you block, and be deliberate about regions where your search audience or infrastructure lives. Blocking is instantly reversible if you spot a problem.
Bot protection handles bad actors automatically, wherever they're from. Geoblocking is for when you want a region shut, not guarded. Many owners want both — and both come with the plugin.
No — it removes work. Blocked requests are dropped before your site runs any code, so blocking a region makes your server lighter, not busier.
Never. Manual geoblocking means thousands of .htaccess lines updated monthly — that's the project this feature retires. Country-to-IP mapping is the firewall's job.
Block any country in a few clicks. Requests dropped before they reach your server. Reversible in one click, from one dashboard.
No IP lists · no .htaccess · takes effect immediately
