Most of the time this has nothing to do with you. This is yahoo, either doing updates, or most of the time this happens if yahoo detects no activity from your account.
If you're signed into yahoo, and are reading your email, or a web site, or something else - yahoo will disconnect you. It happens less frequently when you are in pm with someone or doing something in yahoo messenger. Yahoo will also send out a packet which asks your computer if you're online, if your computer doesn't reply in the specified amount of time, yahoo will assume you're offline, and kick you out. So if yahoo is checking your status at the same time as you're downloading something, or browsing, or doing something that takes up internet bandwidth, your computers reaction is slower and you'll get knocked off. This also happens when your firewall or antivirus do a scan of the ports, etc. We'll just have to wait and see until yahoo is done messing with the servers. --- In [email protected], siobhan ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is going on with Messenger? I was signed in and all of a sudden it signed me out, for no apparent reason, a week ago and I have been trying to sign in ever since. It won't let me. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it. I even set up a whole new system and downloaded it again. I sign in and then nothing happens it just pops back to the sign in window, I have tried removing my firewall, although I never had a problem before. I am tearing my hair out!!! > > --------------------------------- > New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. >
