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I've been blacklisted!

Author: D.Shechtman (26 May 07 2:59am)

I just tried to log into one of my phpBB boards, only to find out that I've been banned from it!

Since my ISP uses dynamic IPs, I was able to recover by just rebooting my machine. Please remove .172.134 from your black list.

I realize that my PC has been used as a spam relay. I hope it's clean now. Could you confirm?

Is there any way of notifying those whose PC have been abused (other than telling them they've been banned)?

Post Edited (26 May 07 3:00am)

Re: I've been blacklisted!

Author: D.Shechtman (26 May 07 3:41am)

This is so much worse than I thought. After another reboot, I'm blacklisted again (this time .46.29)!

Should I start adding IP subnet exclusions to override http:BL's responses?

EDIT: A quick remedy was to increase the threat threshold (I was using 0 just in case).

Post Edited (26 May 07 3:49am)

Re: I've been blacklisted!

Author: J.Haywood (2 Jun 07 10:33am)

If you are using a threat level of 0 then you'll get banned automatically.
Eventhough my own IP is static and I have had it for the last 5 years it still shows a httpBL threat level of 39 lol