Why am i banned from the chatroom????????????????????????

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09 Aug 2005, 6:46 pm

See above. I just tryd to get onto the chatroom now, and it sed i was banned.

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09 Aug 2005, 6:51 pm

no one is banned from the chatroom.

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09 Aug 2005, 6:52 pm

It says i am, i cant get on, it says sumat about me beeng banned.

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09 Aug 2005, 7:10 pm

Assassin wrote:

It says i am, i cant get on, it says sumat about me beeng banned.

It would help if you gave the exact message because no one is banned from the room. Sorry about your difficulties.

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09 Aug 2005, 7:28 pm

1 second. Lemme just try goin on it agen.

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09 Aug 2005, 7:48 pm

the message wrote:

Connecting...
Logging in...
-- *** Looking up your hostname...
-- *** Found your hostname, welcome back
-- *** Checking ident
-- *** Got ident response
-sterling.freenode.net- *** Banned: Open Proxy found on your host.
Please visit www.blitzed.org/proxy?ip=80.2.106.169 for more information.
Error : Closing link: Assassin_wp (Banned)
Disconnected from irc.freenode.net

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09 Aug 2005, 8:26 pm

You're not banned from the specific room #wrongplanet, but the server that the chatroom is hosted on is blocking you because you have open proxies. That means you're open to all kinds of connections from other computers. It's usually caused by a virus on your system that's trying to spread through chatrooms, which is why Freenode (the Wrongplanet chat server) isn't letting you in.

Try running a virus scan with AVG Free.

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09 Aug 2005, 8:29 pm

Ah that explains it then cos there has been a virus on this computer for about a week and i havent been able to get rid of it. I did do a virus scan, but the virus seems quite smart - it turned one of my own files into a decoy, so that the virus scan removed the decoy insted of the virus.

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10 Aug 2005, 6:43 am

If you know the name of the virus you can look it up at some place like the Norton web site and perhaps download a repair utility, or get instructions on how to remove it. The other possibility is that you might have to reformat your hard drive.

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10 Aug 2005, 11:58 am

No, i dont no the name of the virus, but the way it got into my computers quite creative, so you mite be able to identify it from that. I was chattin to sumone on msn, and i got a message askin if sumat was me, and a link with my address at the end of it, and when i had a look at the link it put the virus onto my comp.

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10 Aug 2005, 2:06 pm

Sorry, can't identify it from that. When you did a virus scan did it find the virus?

You might want to try running this:

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger

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10 Aug 2005, 3:30 pm

No. It didnt find the virus. At first i thort it had, but then the computer continued to show simptoms of infection, and i started to miss another peece of software - the virus had turned this software into a decoy, so that the virus scanner wood get rid of that rather than the virus itself, i think.

As for mcafee, its the antivirus program this computer has anyway.