Airport WiFi thinks my newsreader is a virus
This morning while waiting for a connection at the Atlanta airport, I signed up for $7.95/day WiFi. It's a lot of cash for Internet, but I'm a news junkie and I wanted to sync up on work email, etc.As usual, when I got online I refreshed all 159 feeds in my MacBook's newsreader. About a third of the feeds refreshed, and then the web went dark! I opened Safari, and to my horror I got this error message:
Anomalous Behavior Detected - Request Blocked
Your computer was automatically blacklisted (blocked) due to an abnormal amount of activity. It is possible that your computer is infected with a worm or virus.
This is scary. When I paid Boingo for WiFi, I certainly didn't anticipate being throttled. When I called their 800-number, they told me to wait 10 minutes, at which point the blacklist would be lifted.
I guess this is a good time to purge my old newsfeeds...
