Bitcoin Foundation says my computer is infected? [SOLVED]

[IveBeenBit]

I went to bitcoinfoundation.org today and was presented with a CAPTCHA and a message saying that my computer is infected with Malware. I find this unlikely since I'm running Ubuntu. Is there something else that can be triggering this? Is there a Bitcoin Foundation webmaster that can give me some insight of potential causes?

Screen cap of the error message: http://imgur.com/mCabCmz

[kiba]

There's ads on bitcoinfoundation? 

[Come-from-Beyond]

I went to bitcoinfoundation.org today and was presented with a CAPTCHA and a message saying that my computer is infected with Malware. I find this unlikely since I'm running Ubuntu. Is there something else that can be triggering this? Is there a Bitcoin Foundation webmaster that can give me some insight of potential causes?

Screen cap of the error message: http://imgur.com/mCabCmz

Maybe u have Litecoin installed on that machine? 

[Gavin Andresen]

Bitcoin Foundation uses CloudFlare to protect bitcoinfoundation.org from distributed denial of service attacks.

As the message says, either your computer or a computer on the same network / ISP as yours was sending lots of spammy requests to CloudFlare. So they ask you to solve a CAPTCHA to prove that you're not part of the bad guy's botnet.

[kjj]

Or maybe you should google cloudflare.

[IveBeenBit]

Bitcoin Foundation uses CloudFlare to protect bitcoinfoundation.org from distributed denial of service attacks.

As the message says, either your computer or a computer on the same network / ISP as yours was sending lots of spammy requests to CloudFlare. So they ask you to solve a CAPTCHA to prove that you're not part of the bad guy's botnet.

Thanks Gavin. I figured out that for some reason my VPN service was causing the message. I suspected that at first, but using the same VPN from another computer on my network trigger that warning.

I just shut off the VPN and was able to access the Bitcoin Foundation site no problem. I thought I had eliminated that variable earlier today, before I posted, but I guess not.