I get the following:
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You have been blocked from entering AVSIM!
You have been blocked based on our firewall and security system rules.
This may have been caused by one or more of the following reasons:
Your email address may contain too many digits; this is translated by our systems as be a spam address
Someone in your organization may have a PC infected with botnet program and using the same IP that is blocked
You may be utilizing a dynamic IP address which was previously utilized by a known spammer (such as a cell "node" with a known bad IP)
You or your organization"s marketing department may be sending out bulk emails that do not comply with the CAN-SPAM Act
You may have an unsecured wireless network which is allowing unknown users to use your network to send spam
Content submitted by you may have been classified as "malicious" at other locations using the same protection services we do
Your country has been blacklisted by us (this includes IP"s that do not have a country lookup provided, i.e., TOR Networks - we do not allow anonymous access)
Your hosting service is a known source of spam
Your IP, user name, email address or nickname may have been previously banned by AVSIM and you continue to be banned here
You are a known pirate
In some rare cases, being blocked may result from a "false positive" by our various services, although this is extremely rare
These measures are in place to increase the safety of AVSIM and to keep it clean and risk free for our valued members.
If you think you may have been blocked by mistake, you can lookup your IP and email address in the various spam prevention systems, and appeal the them or follow their IP release procedures.
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It's funy because I thought I was a valued member of AVSIM....obviously not.
Of the many Spam prevention services my IP address appears in 4 of them, but 2 of them are the same organisation and 1 of them relates to ihug which I have not used for over 6 plus years.
When looking at them in detail it relates to mail servers and not a casual account. Could it be a Vodafone thing?
I subscribe to and log onto many forums and have not been blocked from any of them.
On Tuesday I checked all the PCs and devices
2 PCs
3 laptops
2 tablets
4 phones
None of them were infected with anything of consequence.
Data use is normal and does not suggest a mass mail out spamming system.
I is a bit like being on a cyber version of a Baycorp credit blacklist (try getting out of that).
Probably AVSIM over-reacting to the great HACK.
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