OzBargain down?

HereYeeHereYee on 17/04/2013 - 19:45

Firefox I get - 403 Forbidden nginx/0.7.67
Though Chrome works fine

Anyone know whats wrong? i cleared browser cache/cookies but issue is still there

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  • scotty on 17/04/2013 - 20:01

    If you are using Firefox 13 — we are currently doing a blanket ban on that particular browser (FF/13.0 or FF/13.0.1). OzBargain was attacked by spambots over the last couple of days, where they

    1. Bypassed Google's reCAPTCHA
    2. Create random accounts on OzBargain
    3. Put spammy website on their profile pages

    I've just gone through the database and deleted about 1,500 spammy accounts, and they are still hammering our server. All the spambots are using FF13 as their user agent so we are banning that now.

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Edit: Btw it would be a good idea to keep your Firefox up to date anyway.

    • HereYeeHereYee on 17/04/2013 - 20:35

      I'm using Firefox 20.0.1 when I got the error.

      No way I would be on Firefox 13! lol

      • scotty on 17/04/2013 - 20:41

        Do you happen to use any proxy / tor extension on your Firefox?

        From our records, you were logging in from various US / Germany / India IP addresses, and many were reported to use Firefox/13.0.1. Could be your proxy extension alter the user agent?

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