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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: Rapid Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:44:15 pm

Title: I'm sorry.
Post by: Rapid Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:44:15 pm
  I just tried to log into this forum a few minutes ago and got a message that said "Rapid Roger you are banned from this site."
I don't know what I did but, I'm sorry.  :'(
I left and went to another forum and then came back and all is OK now. Guess I've been forgiven.
What kind of deal is this? Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Rog
Title: Re: I'm sorry.
Post by: termite on January 02, 2014, 08:36:24 pm
i got banned a couple weeks ago. Steve spent most of the night fixing the problem.
no problems since
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Post by: newfie on January 02, 2014, 08:52:53 pm
I did to a couple weeks ago
Title: Re: I'm sorry.
Post by: ALG on January 02, 2014, 08:55:57 pm
Happened to me today too.
Title: Re: I'm sorry.
Post by: jerry1939 on January 02, 2014, 09:53:07 pm
Heck, I've been banned from just about every place in town.    :D     :D     :D

Just kidding !!

Life was much simpler B.C.   (Before Computers)

jerry1939
Title: Re: I'm sorry.
Post by: Crabbyboater on January 02, 2014, 10:24:18 pm
Had the same thing happen to me awhile back.  Really upset me, but then Steve got it fixed.  Some kind of virus, but not something you caused.
Title: Re: I'm sorry.
Post by: Russ C on January 03, 2014, 05:31:02 am
Read Steve's post Login issues in Bulletins and News;

The login issue has shown up again. If you tried to login to the forum earlier today you may have been shown as banned. This is a bug in the forum software and nothing you have done. I know how to work around the problem now but I still have not been able to find the root cause. I'm looking into several different possible causes so be patient with me. Some have mentioned that it might be a virus or a hacker. I'm pretty sure that is not the case here. It looks more like a bug in the software. There are attempted attacks of the forum everyday believe it or not. What they almost always want is to put spam in the forum or swipe email addresses. They are looking to make money. They don't have any real reason to just do something like ban users randomly. I keep the forum software updated when new updates come out. Almost every update is to improve security. The authors of the forum software have done a pretty good job of shutting down the weak points.

Steve Good