If you have seen a Cloudflare notice showing up when you first come on the site, it is because we have turned on our Distributed Denial Of Service attack protection. DDOS's are caused when a group of computers are infected with a virus and form a "botnet" that troublemakers can use to flood a website with so many page requests that it slows down to a crawl or hangs. Most members of these botnets are not even aware they have been compromised. This is a good reason to keep your antivirus and malware protection up to date.
Cloudflare is a service that prevents these attacks from getting through by vetting the source of the page request before letting it through. Similar to a firewall. If you are a normal user, you will just see a "wait" message for a few seconds when you first access the site . After than your access should be normal. If you were a botnet, you would be blocked. The message may pop up again if you switch tabs again or post.
Cloudflare is a service that prevents these attacks from getting through by vetting the source of the page request before letting it through. Similar to a firewall. If you are a normal user, you will just see a "wait" message for a few seconds when you first access the site . After than your access should be normal. If you were a botnet, you would be blocked. The message may pop up again if you switch tabs again or post.
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