I have made a change behind the scenes in the site that should speed it up and increase security. This may result in you needing to fill in a CAPTCHA before getting to the site. IF (this should be rare) you get a CAPTCHA it is likely that you have a virus so in that unlikely event you should run an anti-virus scanner.
The detail:
On another site I run, I recently moved to CloudFlare to protect (and speed up) the site (here's where I heard about it). It appears to work well and the site seems faster. Part of this move means changing the DNS for freespiritsrowing.com, and this should be complete by 0:00 GMT on Monday 20th June. Under the system you may get a challenge page before you are granted access to the site. You can still access the forum by passing the captcha.
From the Cloudflare site
Please make any observations, good or bad, on this thread - the change can be reversed at any time.Cloudflare wrote:Only a small number of your forum members will see the challenge page...the challenge page will appear if there are indications that their machine is infected with a computer virus or malware. The best thing to do is to run an anti-virus scan on their machine as a precaution...there are false positives with the data, but it is most common when the visitor is coming from a shared network like an office, college network or coffee shop. What this means is that although their computer isn't infected, someone else on the same network does have an issue. Your community member should run an anti-virus scan as a precaution. If there is no virus or malware, then they can enter the CAPTCHA to access the forum. The data set will refine over time.
