Vigin Mobile has major snafu over the weekend

Vigin Mobile had a major snafu over the weekend that resulted in the blocking of lots of websites.

A user reported the following: "My Virgin Media broadband has stopped working due to an SSL error on the Web Safe server. What's annoying is that I haven't opted in to their Web Safe service, but all my traffic is now being routed through it. Or rather [it] isn't because it's broken. I also can't check my Web Safe opt-out status as the site is experiencing issues."

Virgin Mobile told users to reboot their routers. In the past few hours, Virgin Media has apologized to a number of customers, after its Web Safe system blocked sites by mistake.

Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media was the last of Britain's Big Four ISPs to switch on its network-level filters, which allow subscribers to prevent perfectly legal material such as pornography from being accessed on their broadband connections.