Have you got 'theme designer mode' switched on? That IS enough to make mod_evasive think Moodle is launching a DOS attack on itself. In normal configuration it should work fine but (as you say) with the caching turned off you will have problems due to the number of files loaded on each page.
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Moodle and Mod_Evasive
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