It has become widely used, including in some highly-publicized attacks against the PayPal, Mastercard and Visa servers a few months back. If you follow news related to hacking and security issues, you doubtless have been hearing about this tool for the past several months. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.A LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is one of the most powerful DOS attacking tools freely available. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for 'privacy', 'being anonymous', or 'changing your region' or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.

Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as 'personal use'.Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following:

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