Help Me Computer Tech Nerds!

[DrFrag]

Moderators can change your profile, but can't see any of your PMs or your password. The only hidden information we have access to is your email address and IP address, but it's through a special control panel. It's not like being logged in as you.

In the meantime, if you want to change your avatar, signature or personal information, ask a moderator (not DrFrag since he's busy these days, and Mark doesn't come often, but anybody else could do the changes for you).

I'm around, just secretly infrequently. I get PMs and emails straight away so I can help out if I'm needed.

Reading though the posts, it sounds to me as though McAffee has put some kind of security block on cookies or session cookies for this site. I'm not familiar with the software, but perhaps there's an option to review or change the security that's in effect. If not, I would try uninstalling McAffee and making sure all its configuration settings are removed as well (it might do this automatically, or you might need to check the manual or a help site).
While you're at it, go into C:\Documents and Settings\[your login name]\Cookies\ and delete [your login name]@www.astroboy-online.txt or anything that looks similar (like [your login name]@www.astroboy-online[2].txt), just in case. Replace [your login name] with whatever your Windows login is.
Then reinstall McAffee and hopefully the security settings will have been reset.

You can disconnect your computer from the Internet while you do this if you want to be extra secure.

[Astro Forever]

What do you mean new account? I think I have my own account. I don't want him reading my email.

So, modersators can go into my account and change my profile? Then, can they read our PM's!!???

As DrFrag said, that was not what I meant. I can't read your PMs and I wasn't talking about sharing an account with anybody else.

However, I can change your avatar or signature. The reason is simple: just imagine if somebody put a HUGE signature, or chose a porny avatar... Then of course it would be normal that the moderators or administrators do something about it right away. But no, we can't read PMs.

What I meant is the following. you could click on Log Out, then the forum wouldn't recognize you as stoogefreaky. This means you would see a link to register on the forum and a link to log in. Instead of logging in as stoogefreaky, choose register, choose a new nickname ("stoogefreaky2" for example) and complete the registration process. Then you will have two accounts on this forum, one as stoogefreaky and another one as, say, stoogefreaky2. Both would belong to you and only you.

I personally do not think that you would have more success modyfing your profile as stoogefreaky2 (for example) than you have at the moment as stoogefreaky. The reason why I mentioned this is that if you can't change your profile with two different accounts, including one that you can see for yourself that no moderator would have had any time to change any setting after it was created, then it would show you without any doubt that the problem is not on our end.

Once again, I assure you, there's nothing we (the moderators) did that could have prevented you from modifying your profile. Not only do we not have any reason to do so, but there's no option to prevent anyone to access his profile. My previous paragraph was only a suggestion in case you would want to check for yourself anyway. It's not something that I really think you should do, but you could still do it as a test if you wanted. Do I make sense?

[stoogefreaky]

testing

[stoogefreaky2]

LOL

(In a sweet sexy voice): I did what you told me, Astro Forever.

(Transform into a demon): Was able to update Profile!

LOL

[stoogefreaky2]

testing for signature to form

[Robot Master]

Hey, I don't know who you guys are but thanks for helping my sister with her computer. Man you should of seen her, she was really going crazy and was about to bust out the rusty chain saw on her computer. Anyway, you guys seem pretty smart on computers, I on the other hand hardly seem to understand any problem that happens on my computer. Strange though, I plane to become a robotic genius.

[fafner]

Just to know, is the profile on the old account still blocked?

[Astro Forever]

Wow that's weird! I didn't think myself it would work!

Well, if it turns out that you can edit your profile only as "stoogefreaky2", then if you want we could switch your nicknames (so that stoogefreaky2 becomes stoogefreaky and vice-versa) and update the post count of the new account to match the old one's. You'd be able to post and update your profile and nothing would show.

[stoogefreaky]

We can do that later. I'll keep Stoogefreaky for right now. Weird thing is, inorder for me to post here, I have to make sure that the site remembers me. Oh will, just forget it. I'm tired with the net. Thanks for y'alls help though! I was getting mad at my brother yesterday and he didn't know what was going on.

[Astro Forever]

We can do that later. I'll keep Stoogefreaky for right now. Weird thing is, inorder for me to post here, I have to make sure that the site remembers me. Oh will, just forget it. I'm tired with the net. Thanks for y'alls help though! I was getting mad at my brother yesterday and he didn't know what was going on.

Did you check the "Remember Me" option when you logged in?