MSN keeps signing off

While I am using MSN Messenger, it keeps signing off,
seemingly at random, and a box comes up telling me I was
signed out because I signed in at another location.
Windows Messenger doesn't seem to be open, and MSN now
claims to be signed off, but I still get messages telling
me when I've got email or when someone has signed in, and
they can start conversations with me, even though I can't
start conversations with them.
When I sign in to MSN Messenger again, I get a message
telling me I've been signed out of '.NET Messenger
Service' (Note. Not MSN) because I signed in at another
location.

Whatever this .NET Messenger service is, how do I get it
to stop signing itself on? (I initially assumed it was
Windows Messenger, but Windows Messenger doesn't appear
on my task list, and I've set it's options not to start
up.)

Mark
Mon Dec 15 13:47:25 CST 2003

> While I am using MSN Messenger, it keeps signing off,
> seemingly at random, and a box comes up telling me I was
> signed out because I signed in at another location.
> Windows Messenger doesn't seem to be open, and MSN now
> claims to be signed off, but I still get messages telling
> me when I've got email or when someone has signed in, and
> they can start conversations with me, even though I can't
> start conversations with them.
> When I sign in to MSN Messenger again, I get a message
> telling me I've been signed out of '.NET Messenger
> Service' (Note. Not MSN) because I signed in at another
> location.

Spooky, isn't it? Mine does the same thing. That and the fact that when
I'm not even running MSN Messenger, my contacts see me online and IM me. I
have to run the damned thing and keep myself cloaked, just to appear as
though I'm not online. Simply leaving it off doesn't work.

Tell me again why I'm trying to use MSN Messenger rather than ICQ??

Mark

harryw
Wed Dec 17 21:18:03 CST 2003

Two possibilities. One is someone steal your password, and logon using your
passport. It seldom happen. The other is you must be logon at another
machine which has a public windows acount for public use, carelessly
selected "remember my password on this machine". When you go off and another
guy power on that computer, your messenger acount automatic sign on there,
and you've been kicked out from current location unless you relogin.

"Mark N." <mark@deathtospam.net> wrote in message
news:utc2fR0wDHA.1396@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > While I am using MSN Messenger, it keeps signing off,
> > seemingly at random, and a box comes up telling me I was
> > signed out because I signed in at another location.
> > Windows Messenger doesn't seem to be open, and MSN now
> > claims to be signed off, but I still get messages telling
> > me when I've got email or when someone has signed in, and
> > they can start conversations with me, even though I can't
> > start conversations with them.
> > When I sign in to MSN Messenger again, I get a message
> > telling me I've been signed out of '.NET Messenger
> > Service' (Note. Not MSN) because I signed in at another
> > location.
>
> Spooky, isn't it? Mine does the same thing. That and the fact that when
> I'm not even running MSN Messenger, my contacts see me online and IM me.
I
> have to run the damned thing and keep myself cloaked, just to appear as
> though I'm not online. Simply leaving it off doesn't work.
>
> Tell me again why I'm trying to use MSN Messenger rather than ICQ??
>
> Mark
>
>

harryw
Wed Dec 17 21:18:39 CST 2003

Two possibilities. One is someone steal your password, and logon using your
passport. It seldom happen. The other is you must be logon at another
machine which has a public windows acount for public use, carelessly
selected "remember my password on this machine". When you go off and another
guy power on that computer, your messenger acount automatic sign on there,
and you've been kicked out from current location unless you relogin.

"Mark N." <mark@deathtospam.net> wrote in message
news:utc2fR0wDHA.1396@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > While I am using MSN Messenger, it keeps signing off,
> > seemingly at random, and a box comes up telling me I was
> > signed out because I signed in at another location.
> > Windows Messenger doesn't seem to be open, and MSN now
> > claims to be signed off, but I still get messages telling
> > me when I've got email or when someone has signed in, and
> > they can start conversations with me, even though I can't
> > start conversations with them.
> > When I sign in to MSN Messenger again, I get a message
> > telling me I've been signed out of '.NET Messenger
> > Service' (Note. Not MSN) because I signed in at another
> > location.
>
> Spooky, isn't it? Mine does the same thing. That and the fact that when
> I'm not even running MSN Messenger, my contacts see me online and IM me.
I
> have to run the damned thing and keep myself cloaked, just to appear as
> though I'm not online. Simply leaving it off doesn't work.
>
> Tell me again why I'm trying to use MSN Messenger rather than ICQ??
>
> Mark
>
>