Why am I getting this all of a sudden?

[ZiprHead]

I've started today getting responses like this on my win 10 laptop. I've rebooted with the same result. Any ideas?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Both washington post and autozone work for me. So it isn't something on their end.

A usual routine is to clear your browser's cache and cookies.

 

[ZiprHead]

Happening on my chromebook and my phone when connected to my wifi network. I wonder if my modem's IP has been blacklisted.

 

[ZiprHead]

Dammit. Now I'm getting the same message from the MLive website, a Michigan newspaper consortium.

I'm going to swap my modem for a new one.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

What OS are you using? Perhaps you got hacked and your system was used for spamming, getting you blacklisted? Perhaps you need to scan your system with the latest malware detectors you can find? Perhaps install some monitoring system to see if your system is sending out dodgy packets from an app you don't recognize?
If you have somesuch garbage on your system, a new modem might soon be blaclisted also. Maybe try a cheap VPN.

 

[Worldtraveller]

Nobody likes you. Duh.

Glad I could help.

 

[ZiprHead]

What OS are you using? Perhaps you got hacked and your system was used for spamming, getting you blacklisted? Perhaps you need to scan your system with the latest malware detectors you can find? Perhaps install some monitoring system to see if your system is sending out dodgy packets from an app you don't recognize?
If you have somesuch garbage on your system, a new modem might soon be blaclisted also. Maybe try a cheap VPN.

I had a VPN on my system. I uninstalled to cross it off the list of possible problems.

Windows 10. Using Windows Defender for virus protection.

 

[ZiprHead]

Nobody likes you. Duh.

Glad I could help.

That's always possible.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Check your clock.

If your clock is outside the valid dates of the certificate they are using you get this access denied. I've been the victim of this once even knowing to check the clock. The time was correct. The date was correct. The year (which wasn't on the screen) was three years in the past.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

What OS are you using? Perhaps you got hacked and your system was used for spamming, getting you blacklisted? Perhaps you need to scan your system with the latest malware detectors you can find? Perhaps install some monitoring system to see if your system is sending out dodgy packets from an app you don't recognize?
If you have somesuch garbage on your system, a new modem might soon be blaclisted also. Maybe try a cheap VPN.

I had a VPN on my system. I uninstalled to cross it off the list of possible problems.

Windows 10. Using Windows Defender for virus protection.

The problem nowadays are rootkits not just viruses. It is getting harder to keep up with. Such malware can infect a computer bios, or UEFI, or various programs. This may mean things like reinstalling a bios, or dealing with infected UEFIs.

Windows Anti-Rootkit Downloads

Rootkit Scanners for Windows.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Check your clock.

If your clock is outside the valid dates of the certificate they are using you get this access denied. I've been the victim of this once even knowing to check the clock. The time was correct. The date was correct. The year (which wasn't on the screen) was three years in the past.

All my clocks are fine.

 

[ZiprHead]

I DL'd Malwarebytes and ran it. Yup, my computer was infected. I'll still need to swap my modem to bypass the blacklists.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

You might try flashing your modem. That is reloading fresh firmware.

 

[ZiprHead]

Something is still trying to load dangerous websites. Malwarebytes and Malwarebytes rootkit isn't finding it.

 

[ZiprHead]

Defender found something but when I click "Start Actions" it does nothing.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Windows has parts that Defender can't deal with apparently. You will probaby have to find a malware removal suite other than defender. Not being a Windows 10 user, I don't know what the present day hot setup is.

Microsoft Defender weakness lets hackers bypass malware detection

Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

[barbos]

I'm going to swap my modem for a new one.

LOL, your russian VPN was geo-locked.
Just turn it (VPN) off.

 

[ZiprHead]

Couldn't shake the malware from my system so I wiped the drive and re-installed windows.

Thank goodness for Chrome remembering all my links and settings.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Now you need to buy a USB SSD and find out how to do full backups.

 

[ZiprHead]

Now you need to buy a USB SSD and find out how to do full backups.

Already have one.