Umm, What?

[ericadawn16]

I was just banned from LiveJournal for six hours. I have Kaspersky so I don't understand this at ALL. I have been blocked by a site before and she was kind enough to explain it had to do with using the wrong browser and using multiple tabs. I have no fucking idea what the problem is here.

Below is an answer to your support question regarding "Re: 412 Precondition Failed"
(http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1270066).

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Thank you for your inquiry and I am sorry for the inconvenience. This IP address was blocked because we noticed a large amount of malicious traffic originating from this IP address. As this block was affecting other users such as yourself, we have temporarily unblocked this IP address, and you should now be able to access the site properly.

However, please be aware that should this malicious activity continue, we may re-ban the IP address in the future. In many cases, this activity is caused by a computer using the IP address unknowingly being infected with malware.

We therefore highly recommend that you make sure that your computer is current on all updates and that you perform an immediate scan with the anti-virus or anti-malware programs of your choice. Additionally, you may wish to contact your ISP to inform them that there is high levels of suspicious activity on this IP, since they may be able to take preventative action as well.

Regards,
LiveJournal Community Care Team

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

LJ was actually down since about 7:30 am EST onward. It would come back in fits and starts, but for about a minute or two. Whatever bizarre LJ messages you were getting had nothing to do with reality -- it was all on their end and no one was able to access the sie.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly seems more realistic than my computer is secretly being used by Russian Spies or something.

I mean, if I had Malware, wouldn't the whole of my internet be fucked up? Including Facebook?

You think this has to do with the new drop-down User choice on comment?

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Its a Denial of Service Attack aimed at the Russian side of the site.

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

That's effed up. The site was down for everyone. :(

[captaintish]

That's weird. I couldn't get on this morning -- I didn't get any message though -- it was just loading and loading and loading, and I got impatient and gave up.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I probably should have given up...

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

LJ has been acting stupid the last couple of days at least. Loading slow and just now doing that fun thing again of not letting me see all the icons, some are blank with that fun filled RED X. and some still show. Weird, do they have a virus I wonder?