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#399843 - Mon Dec 03 2007 05:51 PM Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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I was wondering if anyone on here has Bellsouth as their ISP?
I can't seem to get anywhere on the internet this afternoon. Both on mine and mom's computer keep saying it can't find the sites. I barely got here. It keeps being so slow and we have DSL.
My sister is also having the same problems getting places and lives in a totally different house.

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#399844 - Mon Dec 03 2007 09:22 PM Re: Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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Update to my problem-
Finally, all of a sudden I'm here on my computer. Not sure how long this will last for.
I also have another question. I can't seem to login to the forums here on my mom's computer. What do I need to be typing in for the username? AmyR2 or AmyR3? I remember having this problem once before on my computer where I was getting confused what I need to type in. I was thinking it was AmyR3 even though it says AmyR2 on here, but I can't remember. I tried both ways though and neither will work when I try and login on mom's computer. It says my password is wrong. Then I tried getting it sent to my email but I can't get the password because of not being able to get in my email either.

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#399845 - Tue Dec 04 2007 07:22 PM Re: Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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As I told you, you need to log in as AmyR3 in the forums, that is your username, your display name is AmyR2 which matches your account name on the other part of the site.
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#399846 - Tue Dec 04 2007 08:59 PM Re: Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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I don't know what is going on. I was typing it in correct.
I've been looking around though and here is some weird things I've found.
1. If I click up top on FAQ and scroll down to Help! I'm having trouble logging in step 5 has something about using the My Cookies tool for purging cookies.
If I click it lists my password which is the one I've been typing to try and get in.
2. If I go to my profile and hit edit, for the Password field it has a whole bunch of asterisks maybe 20 or more. My password that is listed in the My Cookies thing and the new one I tried to fix it too after I got the password request only has 8 characters, but isn't registering that way if I hit edit profile.
3. Could a problem with Bellsouth be causing this problem or with having DSL instead of Earthlink Dialup?
4. Or I guess it could be related to all the spyware I keep having trouble with on my computer.

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#399847 - Wed Dec 05 2007 01:47 AM Re: Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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I don't think your problems would be anything to do with your ISP or spyware. It seems it would be to do with typing login details correctly.

The large number asterisks shown in the FunTrivia password entry box don't reflect the number of characters in your actual password. I don't know for certain but suspect the forum software masks the real number of characters in passwords with a long string of asterisks for security reasons. Looking in my own account, there are 32 asterisks (that might be the number in yours too). This is not the number of characters I have in my password.

Using the 'My Cookies' purging tool doesn't reveal passwords. Again checking my own account, the cookie information is not showing my password. I think this information will be encrypted and only the forum software will be able to interpret it.


Edited by tellywellies (Wed Dec 05 2007 01:55 AM)
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#399848 - Wed Dec 05 2007 01:28 PM Re: Can't get anywhere-Anyone have Bellsouth?
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Yes, I was wondering if it was maybe for security reasons. Thought I'd make sure.

My mom is here with me trying to help me figure out how to explain all this.

I don't see how it can be a problem with me typing my login details wrong because I have it set to where my computer remembers my login information.
I also had my mom try and help see if she could do it and she couldn't do it either.
Also keep having problems with just everything on my computer not working right and same with mom's.
Ever since getting Bellsouth I keep getting hit with all these viruses/spyware so much.
My mom can't even get in her email since all these problems the other day just started with not being able to get to any websites but here and all.

When I click this link here on the site
http://www.funtrivia.com/ubbthreads/mycookies.php
It shows up the cookie information.
Says My Cookie Information at the top and lists all the details.
One of the things says FTPASS
There is also a button at the bottom you can hit to have it Expire Cookies it says you can do.

We keep reading that with spyware they can read your information and passwords you are typing.
I've even lost several hotmail accounts of mine over the years due to people getting my passwords and hacking my account and then changing all the information so it doesn't match the stuff I have written down in order to get my account back.

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