StrokerAce
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There may be one in a million chance that any of you will need this information, but it may help you out one day.
I tried to log on to the trucking forums Monday night and got a "you have been blocked for open proxy" message. I didn't even know what an "open proxy" was, so I wasted four hours of my life trying to figure out what was wrong. All I could find out was that maybe my computer had been hijack by spammers and was using it to email bulk messages across the world.
I ran anti-virus programs and nothing would come up wrong with my computer. Tuesday morning I went to one of the anti-spamming sites called Sorbs, that the trucking forum message said was blocking my IP. After typing in my IP, sure enough it was on the list as a spammer IP. I thought WTF? I noticed that it was blocked on May 25, 2004, over two years ago. It was then I realized that my IP had changed sometime Monday morning. The IP that I had now had been used in the past by a email spammer.
To fix this mess, I went to START then click RUN and typed in cmd and click OK. Then I typed in ipconfig/release. Turned off the computer, unplug everthing, and waited a few hours for it to reset. Turned it back on, plug everthing back in, and went to START, then RUN, and typed in cmd and click OK. Typed in ipconfig/renew. It gave me a new IP and everything is back to normal.
I tried to log on to the trucking forums Monday night and got a "you have been blocked for open proxy" message. I didn't even know what an "open proxy" was, so I wasted four hours of my life trying to figure out what was wrong. All I could find out was that maybe my computer had been hijack by spammers and was using it to email bulk messages across the world.
I ran anti-virus programs and nothing would come up wrong with my computer. Tuesday morning I went to one of the anti-spamming sites called Sorbs, that the trucking forum message said was blocking my IP. After typing in my IP, sure enough it was on the list as a spammer IP. I thought WTF? I noticed that it was blocked on May 25, 2004, over two years ago. It was then I realized that my IP had changed sometime Monday morning. The IP that I had now had been used in the past by a email spammer.
To fix this mess, I went to START then click RUN and typed in cmd and click OK. Then I typed in ipconfig/release. Turned off the computer, unplug everthing, and waited a few hours for it to reset. Turned it back on, plug everthing back in, and went to START, then RUN, and typed in cmd and click OK. Typed in ipconfig/renew. It gave me a new IP and everything is back to normal.