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#24805 "You are a spammer, hacker or an otherwise bad person."

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Latest post by user73981 on Monday, 28 March 2016 09:27 CDT

Monday, 28 March 2016 07:46 CDT

user73981
I have a similar issue as with the post - #24543 – impossible for me to access to my site.

I get "You are a spammer, hacker or an otherwise bad person." both on the front end and back end of my site.

this happened after upgrading my admin tools. i have down graded and not had this issue. I have done the 1st step pasted below.

Go inside the plugins/system/admintools/admintools directory on your site (on older versions of Admin Tools: plugins/system/admintools). You will see a file named main.php. Rename it to main-disable.php

the second step asks you to "Go to Components, Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall and click the Exceptions Log button."

i do not have a button labeled web application firewall.

Monday, 28 March 2016 08:34 CDT

nicholas
According to the screenshot you have Admin Tools Core which lacks the security features, therefore cannot cause the problem you are reporting. I suspect that you either tried to install Core on top of an earlier Professional version, breaking your Admin Tools installation, or Joomla! ended up removing some files and forgetting to update certain files during the upgrade process. The latter is, sadly, not unheard of: about 5% of extension updates suffer from that Joomla! bug.

There is a simple solution. Download Admin Tools from our site and install it from Extensions, Manage twice in a row, without uninstalling it before or in between. This will refresh all files and you should be able to log in to your site. If you still get the "You are a spammer..." message after the installation please go into plugins/system/admintools/admintools and rename the main.php file again: (re)installing/updating Admin Tools puts this file back into place.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Monday, 28 March 2016 09:27 CDT

user73981
Thank you. after the install it gave me an option to unblock my ip on the control panel.

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