Windows did their monthly (large) update yesterday, it was one of those updates that you have to restart the pc and that went fine. Suddenly, about halfway through the day I tried to return to my homepage after going to a site on the internet and a page appeared saying there is a 403 error and that access to that page (Cox) is blocked. Everything else is working as it should, such as going into Favorites and surfing to a website, but it just keeps showing me the error message when I try to return to my homepage. What the heck is going on and does anyone have a suggestion on how to correct it?

Cloudfront is a content delivery network that is part of Amazon Web Services. A CDN is designed to distribute and locate static web content (images, html pages, javascript code, etc) close to end users. Using a CDN makes your web site faster and cheaper to run, especially at large scale.

The error you're getting is because somebody at the provider using Cloudfront screwed the pooch when configuring something or doing an update.

Thanks. So I’m guessing that this is something that will get sorted out as soon as someone realizes they shouldn’t have pressed that red button.

There are other reasons Cloudflare may be blocking a site including delay in paying one's bill (e.g. to AWS), or user complaint about site content or spam origination. Yes, it usually goes away after things get sorted out.