IE Keeps logging me out

[shoutforjoy]

I've been having problems for the last few days where I keep being logged out of this forum and some others, including Ebay. It was giving me a lot of trouble when posting and trying to watch and buy items.

After a big of digging around I think that I have tracked the problem down to Internet Explorer 8.

I've now installed Mozilla Firefox and use this to browse the internet - the problem is resolved.

I thought I'd mention it on here in case anyone else encounters the same problem.

Bill Gates has a lot to answer for!

[asahartz]

IE8 itself isn't the problem, I use it on several PCs/laptops for this and other forums and Ebay, no issues. I don't know if a Windoze "update" has messed things up, haven't updated mine for a few weeks. It's also possible that deleting your cookies may help.

But all in all my most likely candidate would be the antivirus; they can do weird things (at work the CA antivirus invokes "data execution prevention" and closes IE at random!). My guess too is that you're using Norton?

[shoutforjoy]

It might be windows as that did update recently, but then IE8 was only installed recently too. I already tried deleting the cookies but that did not help. I know a few other people have had the same problem too - the fix has always been to switch to another browser.

I use Kaspersky internet protection. It works fine with Firefox and with IE7 on our other computer.

[(minisniper)]

Hiya
Sorry to hear you're having problems with logging onto the forum and other sites. I personally wouldn't use IE anyway as it's not as secure as Firefox. I personally would stick with Firefox and see how it goes, you may find that it's a problem with IE and your version of Windows.

Just out of interest what OS are you using?

Lea

[shoutforjoy]

I use Windows Vista on my laptop. This is the one that has been giving us grief. Our other computers running Windows XP and Windows 7 are both fine.

Firefox is working well and not giving me any problems so I will stick with it.

[(minisniper)]

Hiya
IE and Vista do have known problems a simple fix is to change your OS to XP or 7 or alternatively stick with Firefox