You do not have permission to access /board/posting.php

TonyGosling

Has any other user had this error message?

Lee · Validated Poster Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 246

Excellent video-analogy Tony.

Spot on.

TonyGosling · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

One of our moderators is getting the following error as of yesterday -ie www.911forum.org.uk goes to a search engine not to this site!!!

http://search.icq.com/search/afe_results.php?q=911forum.org.uk&tb_id=% toolbar_id&tb_ver=2.3&lng=1085&ch_id=afe

which then loops round and round - when she clicks on the top link to this site she just gets this same search screen again

Anyone any ideas on this?????

Neither Caz, our War on Children editor nor John White can access the forum.

Jim · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

Sounds like she possibly has a virus/trojan.

Ask her to run a full virus scan in Safe Mode in Windows.

No problems here so far.

Frazzel · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject:

ive had no probs either.
maybe they have a nasty virus on their pc?

Jim · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

Help with security here:

http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=1436

Note that AVG has been updated so get AVG free from:

http://free.avg.com/

... left hand column option(s).

TonyGosling · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

Possibly right Frazzel.

After some frantic disgnostics it now looks as if it's our moderator's ISP or his PC.

Watch this space.

Thermate911

I've been having issues with Ubuntu for a while now as I have very non-standard video cards - finally sorted BUT I don't use Firefox on that OS as it no longer allows one to choose whether to accept updates or not!

So, using Opera 9.1 in Ubuntu I get the "forbidden - you do not have permission to access /board/posting.php on this server" error message when attempting to log on here.

Obviously no probs using Windows XP and firefox, otherwise you wouldn't be seeing this post...

I've been out of 'net security' for too long now but ISTM that there is an underlying cause to this issue that's OS/Browser related. In this regard, I no longer trust even the free anti-virus guards as they are not open source and would appear to be using google tactics to log all ones files. My cumbersome approach now is to load AVG, go through the huge update nonsense, do a virus scan then, regardless of any infection, wipe my system and reload a safe, clean mirror image. Time consuming, counter-productive but increasingly necessary, imo.

Ironic that a website like this one unwittingly gets me barred from posting access when using an open source environment! Here's cause enough for 'conspiracy theory' to flourish ;-)

Please don't ask me to PM Jim 'cos he doesn't seem to be responding.

Anyone else having this issue?

"Microsoft just sells you Windows; Linux gives you the whole house"
http://www.ubuntu.com

TonyGosling · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

Never use Firefox unless absolutely necessary.
It was bundled with Thunderbird email program which is a totally compromised bit of software.
I also heard from a media rights charity boss that his version of firefox actually self-installed a fakle version of Firefox which very slowly, over several weeks, gobbled up his RAM until the computer took ages to to anything. It looks likely this fake firefox was also sending his passwords off to some evil control centre somewhere.

Anyway - if you can write a short pithy request and/or question I'll pass it on to the ISP and let you know how it goes.

Disco_Destroyer · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

Disco_Destroyer · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:08 pm Post subject:

Strangely enough after a couple of days dodgy computing I'm running Malwarebytes right now, already ran Adaware and AVG Wink

Thermate911 · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

Linux doesn't need malwarebytes, ccleaner, adaware, AVG etc ad nauseum, although they do run fine under Wine. ;-)

Agreed about firefox, that's why I use Opera for anything important.

This site is important to me but, to repeat,

Thermate911 · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: FYI, FWIW and Bar

Update on Ubuntu 8.10 with Opera 9.6

I am now able to log in here with the above combination. It boils down to RTFM, I am very sorry to say.

For anyone else tearing their hair out over this issue, in Opera, make 911forum your active tab then 'simply' go to 'Tools / Quick Preferences / Edit Site Preferences / Network tab /

Enable 'Send Referrer Information' - duh! - unlike all other browsers, this is OFF by default in Opera. Very sensible really. Opera's site-specific functions appear remarkably comprehensive.

So! Finally, bye bye Windows and good riddance.

ps. Anyone who finds their net connection impossibly slow in Ubuntu needs to disable IPv6 - no bad thing anyway. Will post the necessary commands if needed...

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