I'd suspect that pyedpiper has left his machine on without a reboot in a while. I have encountered some Zeuses (there are many versions) that warn that turning the system off will cause password info to be stolen. Ignore - it's a fake threat. My reasoning is:
1) Zeus is a Trojan Horse. That means it has two parts, the promise and the turn. Many anti viral pkgs see the promise and disallow the turn (meaning there's an offer and you're safe if you don't accept it but if you do, the real virus is unleashed).
2) Anti-malware can often leave the invitation on a page or site memory screen (since it does no real harm being there). Once you refresh the Page, Tab or system 'promise tag will go away. just turn off and on and see if the warning goes away.
It's akin to a bit of Junk email. It sits in your in-file containing the bad demon seed but does no harm if unopened. Delete the email and the demon is gone with the notice and without damage. Rebooting/refreshing is similar to deleting the email.
For info about Zeus, see here.

But I'm not the expert that Terry may be so exercise caution. I don't think a reboot will cause harm though. And if allowed, a revert to the system condition prior to the appearance of the Zeuss can't hurt.

It appears he got something called Zeus malware on his machine, and when he visits our site (and I suspect others), it tries to scam him.

https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/10422-you-have-a-zeus-virus-scam

He must have picked it up from a download somewhere, or some browser bug that allowed for a stealth upload.

Please forward him to that link.

Terry-- I locked myself out of the site today. If you see this before you check your messages here in the forum, I sent you the IP address.

Hi,

User DeepHistory gets the following

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Could you please help?

George

Is he in now? I couldn't find any blocks, but I did remove some yesterday.

Terry, a member on Facebook has posted that they can't get to the site. Will you take a look there? Thanks.

Two of our team members (maryjdonohoe57 and izzy50) are having problems, not connecting, but staying connected to the site. It has been going on for about 4 days now.

Here is what maryjdonohoe57 says:
I got knocked out of fun trivia 3 times tonight....The question I am answering freezes then it keeps running and running. I try to get back on and can't so I close the page and it says something about they can't connect to fun Trivia. I go on another website and everything is fine. After awhile I'm not sure how long it comes back. I don't know what it is wrong. It happens on both Google and Mozilla....happening in the Dual and the Global Challenge...I noticed it happens after I do 2 or 3 quizzes. After I finish I click for the score but instead of the score coming up it keeps running and then the timed out message shows up. It takes quite sometime before I can get back on.... happened again, while I was playing the Who Am I Quiz, so I guess it doesn't matter what I am playing. It freezes for a moment that it keeps running on connecting and then the timed out message pops up. ...now I can't even do a question or two

Here is some additional things izzy50 noticed:
...tried going on the forum, but as I get kicked out after a minute or so its not enough time to post the issue...


Hope someone can help them soon...

A workaround I came up with that seems to have worked for one player:

I have heard of a few reports like this over the past few days too, so there is certainly something up somewhere.

As a first step, I just restarted the FunTrivia process. It had been running for something like 6 months without a crash or a restart, and it's possible its memory got a little messed up over that period without a refresh.

Please let me know if things are better going forward.

Terry, izzy50 got a message from you, but says it is still going on - he can post a little, but gets still kicked out of the games...

Current working theory is that anti-virus program "Avast" has a bug in it that is interfering with FunTrivia's connection (and other random websites).

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=200890.0

The suggestion is to try turning off port scan until they fix their bug:

Avast UI -> Protection -> Firewall -> Settings -> Advanced -> Uncheck "Enable automatic port scan detection"


Please give that a try and let me know if it works.

There are good news from izzy50. For now maryjdonohoe57's connection is working with the proxy for now, will try the port scan setting when she gets a helping hand, chances are she will be fine.

Thanks for everything, Terry and Wes!

Player Catreona has been locked out.

Fixed

Member rubytops has been locked out.

So has agony.

I'm back!

I don't normally resurrect age-old threads, but figured this was better than starting a new one. One of my friends, username carolmitch, is getting a 403 Forbidden error when she tries to access FT. She emailed me to ask if someone could please look into it for her.

Thank you!

I got another message a short time ago saying that as of this mid-morning my friend (carolmitch) still cannot get in and needs assistance. (Terry - sorry to "double-dip" between this and a PM; I just wasn't sure which one you'd notice first)

Sorry again to be a "repeater", but just wanted to re-post to this thread to make sure Terry sees it -- I sent a PM again the other day. The same issue as before seems to have cropped up again. As stated, the only reason I'm bumping this thread with a new post is to be sure you (Terry) are aware that there's an issue again and that I've sent a PM regarding it.

Sorry if I'm being a bit redundant and/or getting on anyone's nerves with my multiple-postings.

My teammate Buddy1 reports:
"When I try to go to this site, I get an error message that says that I don't have permission to access this site. (Right now, I'm using a different computer.)
At first, I thought it was a problem with the site but since I can get on this site from a different computer and no one else is reporting this problem, apparently it's not.
Any suggestions?"

Not sure what all information you need. The computer with which he can access Fun Trivia is in a different location:
"The two computers are in two different locations.
Also, I forgot my forums password, and I'm not on the computer that has that information."

Further info from Buddy1 (see above) - I asked if he remembered if it was the 403 message:
"Yes, it was the 403. It started Friday evening. I was able to get on but about when I tried about an hour later, I was given that message."

I presume the problem persisted all weekend - at least Buddy1 has 0 points yesterday.

Please ask to try now.