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TOPIC: Generic: htaccess.txt has not been renamed

Generic: htaccess.txt has not been renamed 12 years 6 months ago #19119

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I installed RSFirewall and everything looks good, but when I ran a joomla security scan on hackertarget, it returned the following vulnerability below. I checked the root htacces and I can see all of the contents. How do I prevent this?

Vulnerabilities Discovered
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Info -> Generic: htaccess.txt has not been renamed.
Versions Affected: Any
Check: /htaccess.txt
Exploit: Generic defenses implemented in .htaccess are not available, so exploiting is more likely to
succeed.
Vulnerable? Yes
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Re: Generic: htaccess.txt has not been renamed 12 years 6 months ago #19120

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resolved. I added the following to my .httacces file.

<files htaccess.txt>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</files>

also added the following rules suggested on hackrepair.com/blog/how-to-block-bots-fr...e-by-hacks-explained
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