[1ponders]
19-03-2007, 01:36 PM
I have a question re passwords.
I've just experienced a rather strange situation. I was unable to log into my yahoo mail, no matter how many times I tried I kept getting the security page coming up to request pass word. I thought at first yahoo might have been down or that I was getting a phishing page, no to both. I rang my wife at work and asked her to access my email and she had no problem. :shrug: Yahoo messenger seemed to be able to log in fine.
Then I thought I'd try my computer down stairs. No go, couldn't access the email. Then I thought I'd post a question here. Now this is where it really gets bizzare. I couldn't log into Iceinspace. :shrug: So I thought I'd try to skype someone from here from techi support. Couldn't log into Skype :mad2: I'm thinking what the hell is going on here. Not being really up with this sort of security stuff I wondered "hell am I being hacked here?" You know typical paranoia. I decided to run my antivirus incase I picked up something, check my firewalls etc and everything seemed to be fine.
In the mean time I thought to disable my wireless connection and then reconnect. Everything works like a dream now.
Can anyone enlighten me on what the hell happened there? I could access any web page I wanted to unless it required me to enter a username and password first.
I've just experienced a rather strange situation. I was unable to log into my yahoo mail, no matter how many times I tried I kept getting the security page coming up to request pass word. I thought at first yahoo might have been down or that I was getting a phishing page, no to both. I rang my wife at work and asked her to access my email and she had no problem. :shrug: Yahoo messenger seemed to be able to log in fine.
Then I thought I'd try my computer down stairs. No go, couldn't access the email. Then I thought I'd post a question here. Now this is where it really gets bizzare. I couldn't log into Iceinspace. :shrug: So I thought I'd try to skype someone from here from techi support. Couldn't log into Skype :mad2: I'm thinking what the hell is going on here. Not being really up with this sort of security stuff I wondered "hell am I being hacked here?" You know typical paranoia. I decided to run my antivirus incase I picked up something, check my firewalls etc and everything seemed to be fine.
In the mean time I thought to disable my wireless connection and then reconnect. Everything works like a dream now.
Can anyone enlighten me on what the hell happened there? I could access any web page I wanted to unless it required me to enter a username and password first.