diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7c0e75e..ec032f4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   - Changed
     - Explicitly allow TLS1.0 
     - Fix markdown output file format
+    - Fixed divide by 0 error when setting rate limit to 0 manually.
   
 - v2.0.0
   - New
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 4ae7b2c..c728da4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 * [Daviey](https://github.com/Daviey)
 * [delic](https://github.com/delic)
 * [denandz](https://github.com/denandz)
+* [Ephex2](https://github.com/Ephex2)
 * [erbbysam](https://github.com/erbbysam)
 * [eur0pa](https://github.com/eur0pa)
 * [fabiobauer](https://github.com/fabiobauer)
@@ -47,4 +48,3 @@
 * [SolomonSklash](https://github.com/SolomonSklash)
 * [TomNomNom](https://github.com/tomnomnom)
 * [xfgusta](https://github.com/xfgusta)
-
diff --git a/pkg/ffuf/rate.go b/pkg/ffuf/rate.go
index 48a6940..e8a0f50 100644
--- a/pkg/ffuf/rate.go
+++ b/pkg/ffuf/rate.go
@@ -65,7 +65,12 @@ func (r *RateThrottle) CurrentRate() int64 {
 }
 
 func (r *RateThrottle) ChangeRate(rate int) {
-	ratemicros := 1000000 / rate
+	ratemicros := 0 // set default to 0, avoids integer divide by 0 error
+
+	if rate != 0 {
+		ratemicros = 1000000 / rate
+	}
+
 	r.RateLimiter.Stop()
 	r.RateLimiter = time.NewTicker(time.Microsecond * time.Duration(ratemicros))
 	r.Config.Rate = int64(rate)