How can I disable jomdefender?

[Caffeine]

I've forgotten my password and locked myself out of the backend with joomdefender. Is there anyway I can disable it?

[Andy]

Caffeine,

Thank you for contacting 'corePHP'. If you forget your password for jomDefender, you can access your site in two ways:

• Use a disable string if you've set in the background. Here's the description of the disable string from the backend:
  

  Disable string::The string that you need to put in the URL to disable the plugin. Make sure this is a random string and not easily guessable!! If you need to use this you will need to craft your URL like this: http://www.example.com/administrator/?disable_string where 'disable_string' is this string, if the URL already has parameters you will have to do this: http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_plugins&disable_string. This is something that you will have to do on each page till you disable this plugin. This will also work on the front-end.
• You can rename the file /plugins/system/jomdefender.php (Joomla 1.5) or /plugins/system/jomdefender/jomdefender.php (Joomla 1.6+) to something else momentarily. This will let you log into your site and reset the password in the parameters for the plugin. Once the file is renamed back to its appropriate name, it will begin functioning as normal.

Let me know if you need anything else!

Kindest regards,