+ Charlie Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 I get a 403 error whenever I try to get into this site on my desk computer, but I can get right in on my iPad. What is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 What happens when you try with a different browser on your desktop? Have you tried disabling any firewalls or other filtering services you might have installed? (Norton loves to flag the site as "malicious" when it clearly is not for example.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, RadioRob said: (Norton loves to flag the site as "malicious" when it clearly is not for example.) That's happened to me twice with Chrome and lasted for several months. I don't know how/why it stopped happening either time. While it was flagging me on Chrome, I was able to get in via Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 It has been doing it with me on both Chrome and Firefox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 I just turned off my Avast VPN, and I was immediately able to get back into this site! But why has it never prevented me before this? samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 VPNs are great for protecting privacy, but it also puts you in the same bucket as everyone else using that VPN. The site is hosted within AWS which could be blocking the IP address of the VPN provider if someone else was using it to do malicious things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 minute ago, RadioRob said: VPNs are great for protecting privacy, but it also puts you in the same bucket as everyone else using that VPN. The site is hosted within AWS which could be blocking the IP address of the VPN provider if someone else was using it to do malicious things. Thanks, even if I don't really understand this. I guess I just have to turn off the VPN whenever I want to get on here. + Lucky and samhexum 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 43 minutes ago, Charlie said: Thanks, even if I don't really understand this. I guess I just have to turn off the VPN whenever I want to get on here. Or get your VPN provider to change your IP address. (Or switch to a different geo... if you can select a different location like NYC, or Miami, or anything different than what it is now it should fix your problem.) samhexum and + Charlie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Many thanks to all above, I thought it was just me. Only recently I've been receiving a notification that a spam filter had been activated when I attempted to log into companyofmen.org). It eventually occurred to me to deactivate my VPN app, which solved the issue, as mentioned in above postings. Technology and this old geezer have a love/hate relationship. 🥰/😠 RadioRob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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