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Re: Problem accessing new posts

Hi

I seem to have problems going directly to the new posts in any discussion, getting an error message

Error 403
We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /viewtopic.php?pid=6819#p6819 on this server.

You do not have permission to access this server.

Your technical support key is: 50fe-9214-dfd9-b1ad

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact forums at nbn.org.uk and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

Attempting to fix myself gets this response

Technical Support
Your request was intercepted by Bad Behavior, security software which protects the Web site you visited from malicious activity, such as hackers, spam and viruses. We apologize for the inconvenience, but your request matched a profile of suspicious activity. This problem is usually quite easy to fix.

Your request was blocked because of malicious automated requests received from your computer's IP address.

This problem may be caused by viruses or spyware on your computer, or by malicious software that pretends to be anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Ensure that you have REAL anti-virus and anti-spyware software on your computer, that they are kept up-to-date, and that you have run a full system scan using each tool. Once your system is cleaned of viruses and spyware, please try your request again.

The free Microsoft Security Essentials provides reasonable protection against a wide variety of malicious software.

If you have just submitted data to the Web site you were visiting before you were blocked, this may be a bug in your Web browser. Click the Back button three times to continue browsing. Then consider replacing your Web browser with a standard Web browser.

If the above suggestions fail to resolve the problem, click Back and contact the e-mail address you were given for further assistance.

I am assuming that is either the result of trying to stop the spate of recent spamming on these boards (it wasn't me and I doubt it was anyone else that works here), although just checking that we haven't been hacked to try to get us to install questionable software.

Gordon

Gordon Barker
Biological Survey Data Manager
National Trust

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Re: Problem accessing new posts

Further investigation shows this happens with Internet Explorer 6, the usual browser here, and not with Firefox 3, which may explain the comment about getting a standard web browser.

G

Gordon Barker
Biological Survey Data Manager
National Trust

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Re: Problem accessing new posts

Hi Gordon,

Yes, I've installed several new anti-spam measures. Internet Explorer 6 is a de facto standard browser (it's certainly a popular browser, although rapidly diminishing), but it does very badly when it comes to Web Standards, which is what I suspect this means.

If this is going to be a problem for you, let me know and I'll pursue it further. Generally speaking, using a modern web browser like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari or even IE8 is highly desirable because IE6 is now so antiquated and lacking in important features in its rendering engine you'll start to see sites that don't work well it it. Even Google have announced they're dropping support for IE6: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html.

Charles

Charles Roper
Digital Development Manager | Field Studies Council
http://www.field-studies-council.org | https://twitter.com/charlesroper | https://twitter.com/fsc_digital

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Re: Problem accessing new posts

IS are considering moving us to IE 8 in the hopefully not too distant future, so shouldn't be too much of a problem. Firefox not common here but don't think many NT staff are on the forum. Might change when I finally get the chance to show people how to use Recorder.

Gordon Barker
Biological Survey Data Manager
National Trust

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Re: Problem accessing new posts

I suspect it might be something to do with your IP address getting onto a spam blacklist somehow. That's fairly common. I've reported your false-positive to the Bad Behaviour people and will let you know what they come back with.

Charles Roper
Digital Development Manager | Field Studies Council
http://www.field-studies-council.org | https://twitter.com/charlesroper | https://twitter.com/fsc_digital