Virgin porn filter failure blocks legitimate sites for customers
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Virgin Media customers were hit by an annoying network cockup on Saturday, after the cable company's smut-filtering Web Safe system stupidly blocked lots of websites.
Subscribers complained about the snafu on Twitter, where many people claimed that they could barely access anything over Virgin Media's network.
Reg reader Brendan alerted us to the blunder on Saturday night.
"My Virgin Media broadband has stopped working due to an SSL error on the Web Safe server," he told us.
"What's annoying is that I haven't opted in to their Web Safe service, but all my traffic is now being routed through it. Or rather [it] isn't because it's broken. I also can't check my Web Safe opt-out status as the site is experiencing issues."
In a follow-up email to Vulture Weekend this morning, Brendan added that he had called VM's support team to complain about the technical snag, only to hear an automated message advising him to reboot his router.
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Rest of the story over @ The Register
If you had problems this weekend, that is probably the reason why. Changing DNS servers apparently helped get around this problem which is worth remembering if it happens again. Rebooting your router like the VM automated message advised won't help at all though...
Appears this site was blocked by the problem too. |
