BANNED (but not from Vistax64)

[mattinahat]

I am curious as to why I have been banned from Demonoid.com. I use demonoid for little know softwares and such and have NEVER received a warning or anything.

I try to login yesterday and all i get is a white screen. From what i have read this means you have been banned.

I am wondering if another demonoid user could go to Demonoid.com - User log in and check if i have any warnings or anything.

NOTE - This will not end up with me requesting an invite or anything i just want to know IF i have any warnings.

 

[Brink]

Hello Matt,

I suppose that you can send a email off to their contact address from this link to see what they say.

Demonoid.com - Contact information

 

[Dwarf]

Hi Matt,

Try the following:

I can't seem to log in, what do I do? (Also known as the Log-In of Death)
If you can't log in and your sign in information is correct, try deleting your cookies and restarting your browser. You should now be able to log in properly. This is usually an error when dealing with Microsoft Internet Explorer

Unfortunately, I am not a member there, so am unable to access the forums (even just to view them).

 

[mattinahat]

Yes i have tried clearing caches, IE and FF, deleting cookies, once again IE and FF.

If you know somebody who is a member could you ask them very politely to try the link in my original post just to see if i have been banned because of surpassing 5 warnings.

I will be very grateful just to know WHY i have been banned.

EDIT: Forgot to say thanks so.... Thanks to Brink for the link to the contacts page and thanks to Dwarf for the log-in info.

I have emailed demonoid.com and i doubt that they will reply but in the email i have outlined all the facts that i presently know and i hope somebody will take notice.

 

[ripbox]

could this not be your problem?
just a random guess but bit an interesting read non the less

New trojans block access to torrent sites


01/04 2009 | 10:38 AM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
1 Comment

Anti-virus vendor Sophos is reporting that a new trojan horse is attempting to block access to Mininova, the Pirate Bay and Suprbay. The trojan, named Troj/Qhost-AC by Sophos, is changing the hosts file on infected Windows machines to redirect users to the local IP address 127.0.0.1. It also adds the comment "EDIT:Bad word" to that file.

From the Sophoslab blog:

"While inserting the comments “EDIT:Bad word” into the HOSTS file is probably not a nice thing to say, it is definitely quite unusual to see a Trojan do nothing else except to deny the infected machine access to P2P websites."

Conspiracy theorists will probably argue that this might be a virus written by or on behalf of the entertainment industry, but I think it's much more likely that a user of a competing torrent site is behind this. Why else would the virus include Suprbay, but fail to mention other much more popular sites?

Still, one shouldn't dismiss this as a silly grudge against the Pirate Bay. Qhost-AC seems to be based on a similar trojan that blocks access to security websites, and Threatexpert.com is reporting that another incarnation of the virus is not only blocking access to torrent sites, but also opening pop-up windows for rogue security software and downloading further malicious code form the Internet.

Read more @ http://www.p2p-blog.com/

 

[gandi]

it says you have 8 warnings

 

[ripbox]

hmmm is this simply not just a case of you didn't seed back what you leached?
8 warnings sounds to me like 8 admins/moderators have reported you for a hit and run
in what case just simply seed back till 1.1 and im also sure even though you have been banned you should still be able to view the T&C of the site to reference back on the reason for a ban

 

[mattinahat]

8 WARNINGS!!

I think that my account has been hacked, failing that some funky stuff is going on.

I seeded back like 8 GB and downloaded about 1.5 GB.

Demonoid doesn't enforce ratio's anyway.

Bugger, now i have to either get an invite or play the monthly game of checking for open registrations!

 

[mattinahat]

New trojans block access to torrent sites


01/04 2009 | 10:38 AM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
1 Comment

Anti-virus vendor Sophos is reporting that a new trojan horse is attempting to block access to Mininova, the Pirate Bay and Suprbay. The trojan, named Troj/Qhost-AC by Sophos, is changing the hosts file on infected Windows machines to redirect users to the local IP address 127.0.0.1. It also adds the comment "EDIT:Bad word" to that file.

From the Sophoslab blog:

"While inserting the comments “EDIT:Bad word” into the HOSTS file is probably not a nice thing to say, it is definitely quite unusual to see a Trojan do nothing else except to deny the infected machine access to P2P websites."

Conspiracy theorists will probably argue that this might be a virus written by or on behalf of the entertainment industry, but I think it's much more likely that a user of a competing torrent site is behind this. Why else would the virus include Suprbay, but fail to mention other much more popular sites?

Still, one shouldn't dismiss this as a silly grudge against the Pirate Bay. Qhost-AC seems to be based on a similar trojan that blocks access to security websites, and Threatexpert.com is reporting that another incarnation of the virus is not only blocking access to torrent sites, but also opening pop-up windows for rogue security software and downloading further malicious code form the Internet.

Sounds like the MPAA and RIAA are getting into the virus industry.

Funny because Demonoid isn't blocked nor is Torrent-Damage and i think they would be more important targets.

 

[gandi]

it has you listed as downloading 1.31Gb uploading 7.05 Gb with a ratio of 5.38 so hardly hit and run stuff!!

 

[mattinahat]

Do they work it out on a per torrent basis?

I.E. You upload a 1GB torrent six times (so your uploads are @ 6GB and DL @ 1GB) so you have a ratio of 6. You then download 5GB of something else and don't upload any for this particular torrent. You still have a ratio better than 1, 1.2 to be exact.

 

[ydb1]

8 WARNINGS!!

.

Bugger, now i have to either get an invite or play the monthly game of checking for open registrations!

you have a pm

my ratio over there is rather bad Uploaded: 615.84 MB
Downloaded: 1.48 GB
Ratio: 0.41 ,, and i havent been banned. actually i haven't accessed that site or used it at all since November 2004.. they must need me for the numbers ..