Hey guys,
I am a bit stumped here, so I'm curious if there is anybody who has any ideas for me! The other day, I noticed in the evening that my WLM display name and personal message had changed; my personal message had changed to one I had set it to at one point the night before, also my name had changed to just my first name, and my display picture had disappeared as if I had not set one. I had thought nothing of it and chalked it up to a server issue....however...
It is now 3 days later and the same thing is happening? I thought maybe a bot/spyware had hacked my account, so I changed my password, and did a scan with Avast, Ad-Aware, and Malwarebytes...none of which turned up anything. I also went so far as to check off the "Use the same Display Picture and Personal Message wherever I sign in." box in the WLM options, and that doesn't seem to have done anything.
I could reinstall, but I am a bit leery of that as I have a lot of the settings personalized for my contacts and it would take forever to set them up again. Does anybody have any ideas? Is there a certain cache I could try clearing or some such, or has this same problem been happening to anybody else?
Any help is appreciated
EDIT - I should say I had done a search on Google and had tried a few things I had found on other forums, but usually they were for just a personal message, or just a screen name, and had to do with older posts from a few years ago, so I don't think they had any effect
I should also say I have the latest version of WLM (not the Wave 4 beta; I won't get Wave 4 until it is released) and the latest version of MSN Plus and I've never had this same problem ever before and have been using MSN/WLM since 2004.
I am a bit stumped here, so I'm curious if there is anybody who has any ideas for me! The other day, I noticed in the evening that my WLM display name and personal message had changed; my personal message had changed to one I had set it to at one point the night before, also my name had changed to just my first name, and my display picture had disappeared as if I had not set one. I had thought nothing of it and chalked it up to a server issue....however...
It is now 3 days later and the same thing is happening? I thought maybe a bot/spyware had hacked my account, so I changed my password, and did a scan with Avast, Ad-Aware, and Malwarebytes...none of which turned up anything. I also went so far as to check off the "Use the same Display Picture and Personal Message wherever I sign in." box in the WLM options, and that doesn't seem to have done anything.
I could reinstall, but I am a bit leery of that as I have a lot of the settings personalized for my contacts and it would take forever to set them up again. Does anybody have any ideas? Is there a certain cache I could try clearing or some such, or has this same problem been happening to anybody else?
Any help is appreciated
EDIT - I should say I had done a search on Google and had tried a few things I had found on other forums, but usually they were for just a personal message, or just a screen name, and had to do with older posts from a few years ago, so I don't think they had any effect
I should also say I have the latest version of WLM (not the Wave 4 beta; I won't get Wave 4 until it is released) and the latest version of MSN Plus and I've never had this same problem ever before and have been using MSN/WLM since 2004.My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom
- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz
- Motherboard
- Asus P5K SE/EPU
- Memory
- 6gb DDR2 RAM - 2gb OCZ, 4gb GSkill - both in dual channel
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS Radeon HD7850 2gb
- Sound Card
- On-board Realtek AC'97 Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- NEC AccuSync LCD71V LCD Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital 160gb SATA (Master), Western Digital 320gb SATA (Secondary)
- PSU
- 500w Coolmax
- Case
- iCute 0302-SL-BAL-B
- Cooling
- top 80mm Exhaust, back 80mm Exhaust, side 80mm Intake
- Keyboard
- 22-year old Compaq RT101 w/ superbright modded blue LEDs
- Mouse
- Logitech MX510 (blue)
- Internet Speed
- Eastlink Cable @ 20 Mbps
- Antivirus
- Avast Antivirus Free
- Browser
- Mozilla Firefox
- Other Info
- I also have an MSI Wind U100 netbook running Linux Mint 17 MATE - 1.6ghz Intel Atom, 2gb RAM, 160gb Hard Drive, 128mb Intel Mobile On-board Video, Realtek AC'97 On-board Audio, 9-cell Battery, 1.0G BIOS
I don't use IE, I use Firefox because I personally like it / find it works better, so I am not sure where it is kept in IE, nor am I sure where it is kept in Firefox for that matter...I just assume that it has to be in a cookie or another temporary file because the aspect of being signed in to Web Messenger in Hotmail is on a per computer basis for me....I.E. when I signed out of it on my desktop, and then later checked Hotmail from my netbook, also using Firefox, it was still signed in on my netbook, despite knowing I had signed out on my desktop.