Added this:

<Files xmlrpc.php>
order deny,allow
deny from all
#override an IP if necessary
#allow from 47.196.217.248
</Files>

To these:

As this user:        In this file
elizabethbenedict    /home/elizabethbenedict/brainwashed.com/elizabethbenedict/.htaccess
brainwashed          /home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/.htaccess


# These are present in the filesystem.
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/rchg.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/aranos/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/vtb.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/aranos.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/commerce/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/rchg/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/giorno_OFF/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/eb/essay.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/eb/essay_HACKED/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/eb/essay/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/podcast.old/podcast.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/podcast.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/diamanda_OFF/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/libraries/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/lpasga/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/commerce.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/podcast/podcast.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/podcast/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/primary/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/primary.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/thenewyear/tnyblog/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/vtb/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/wc.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/wc/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/lpasga.old/xmlrpc.php
/home/brainwashed/media.brainwashed.com/elizabethbenedict/xmlrpc.php