Currently protector will ban even webmasters if they do something wrong.
eg: if webmasters open too many pages protector block them as bad crawlers.
I think they should be an option to exclude all webmasters actions like below:
exclude these groups for any actions: webmasters , registered users, ...
please read this topic for more info:
http://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=347682