E-gold against phishing attacks

If you are trying to enter your e-gold account and you receive a message like I post below, then your IP is in the DNS blacklist of the websites posted in this message:

The IP you are using to access the e-gold website (x.x.x.x) appears on DNS blacklist(s) as being either an open proxy or otherwise exploited. You will not be permitted to access e-gold services from this IP while the DNS blacklist record(s) remain active.

Your first order of business should be to make sure that you are computing securely. Please read and implement e-gold’s Security Recommendations.

After you have resolved any security issues, you are then ready to take steps to get your IP removed from DNS blacklist(s). Please visit the following websites to begin that process.
http://www.au.sorbs.net/
http://www.spamhaus.org/
http://www.ahbl.org/

That doesn´t mean that you will not be able to enter your e-gold account anymore. You can do it with a different IP or connection. I recommend you to shutdown your computer and your modem/router during some hours if you have a dynamic IP and perhaps your ISP will change your IP to another one.

If not, you can visit those websites and use the “search” option to find your IP and delete your restriction from these blacklists. And you must have some patience, because perhaps it will not be resolved in the same day, it can delay 2 or 3 days.

What e-gold posted about this new feature:

e-gold Users now have additional protection against “phishing attacks”, thanks to a ground breaking upgrade to its Account Sentinel™ (a.k.a. AccSent(tm)) arsenal of account access security features.

Using DNS blacklist data published by well known third parties, AccSent now blocks account access from IPs identified as open proxies, insecure web servers, or otherwise open to exploitation by criminals. For the sake of brevity, e-gold refers to such blacklisted IPs as “blips”.

As always, the AccSent advantage is that e-gold Users need not take any action – or even understand what an IP address, an open proxy, or a phishing attack is – to immediately benefit from this innovative new feature. However, as powerful as AccSent is, the best protection against phishing and other criminal attacks is user education. For this reason e-gold urges its Users to carefully read and practice the Security Recommendations published on the e-gold.com website.