"Banned" in Firefox!

[Tysilio]

I tried to log in just now, and saw the following message:

An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry Tysilio, you are banned from using this forum!
spam
This ban is set to expire September 06, 2015, 01:14:33 am.

This was in Firefox (latest version) -- if I log in from IE, everything works fine. Weird.

Has this happened to anyone else?

[Devlyn]

OK, I know this is upsetting to you. You probably should have thought about that before you spammed the forum.

And for what it's worth, we spell it BANNED around here, lock your caps, for Pete's sake! 

Hugs, Devlyn

[Susan]

You were accessing through a website hosted by  Leaseweb USA, Inc. which was used to post spam to this domain. I show 4 websites hosted on that ip. Access this site directly and you should have no problems.

[iKate]

I'm curious though, is that some sort of malware causing it to go through a proxy? Could explain the spam too.

[Laura_7]

I tried to log in just now, and saw the following message:
This was in Firefox (latest version) -- if I log in from IE, everything works fine. Weird.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Did you load firefox from a non official website ?
This is the official website :
mozilla dot org/en-US/firefox/all.html (make backups from bookmarks etc before installing anew).

Or did you install some addons, or installed a program which changed some firefox settings ?
You could look up the software tab of your os, if there is someting like a taskbar there...

hugs

[Susan]

I'm curious though, is that some sort of malware causing it to go through a proxy? Could explain the spam too.

Always possible.

[Ms Grace]

I've given up on Firefox - keeps knocking out my wifi!

[Tysilio]

You were accessing through a website hosted by  Leaseweb USA, Inc....

Ah, yes, that explains it. %#$&* Firefox anonymous browsing add-on (which I almost never use) decided to update itself and turn itself on.  Now I've disabled it -- that'll teach it to mess with me.