diff --git a/lib/firewall/generic.py b/lib/firewall/generic.py
index d6d4ae5..daa591f 100644
--- a/lib/firewall/generic.py
+++ b/lib/firewall/generic.py
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ __item__ = "Generic (Unknown)"
 
 def detect(content, **kwargs):
     content = str(content)
+    status = kwargs.get("status", None)
+    if status == 403:
+        # if the error HTML is an Apache error, Apache has a tendency to be fucking stupid
+        # and output 403 errors when you are trying to do something fun. mostly because
+        # Apache is a killer of fun and doesn't like anything decent in this life.
+        if re.compile(r"<.+>403 Forbidden<.+.>", re.I).search(content) is not None:
+            return False
     detection_schema = (
         re.compile("blocked", re.I), re.compile("forbidden", re.I),
         re.compile("illegal", re.I), re.compile("reported", re.I),