AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog.  Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. This Plugin will make alot of the bots out there stop coming back. You just choose a username and password and you are done. It writes the .htaccess file, without messing it up. It also encrypts your password and creates the .htpasswd file, as well as setting the correct security-enhanced file permissions on both.

Imagine a huge brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving virii.  Forget spam, these millions of zombie bots are too outrageous to ignore, they are attempting known (but strangely outdated) exploits looking for known vulnerabilities against blogs and other Internet software.  Sooner or later some poor blogger is going to miss an upgrade and become a victim to this type of video-game-like-attack.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/htaccess-password-protect.html