A friend on MSN/Yahoo and I talk this morning. They then leave for work.

Some few hours later I see that they are in fact online and I say hello.... and get no reply. The online account goes offline shortly afterwards.

Said friend is seen online, some hours later when I would have expected them to be home from work and I inform them that "they" were online hours earlier. Friend insists that they were at work and I absolutely believe them.

Possible solutions......

1. Babysitter manages to hack friends account.
2. Friend left computer switched on and MSN/Yahoo loaded.
3. Friend's account was remotely hacked.

I believe option 2 above highly unlikely as I saw the account go offline after we finished talking.

Anyone got any other suggestions about what might have caused this ? I strongly suspect babysitter and poor password but am open to other suggestions.

Friend has MSN so it auto logs in when PC boots???
Friend has no P-word on his user acc?

Babysitter loads PC and MSN auto loads, then she is has to log off the acc, thus why she was online in the first place.
Perhaps she checked her mail or jus shut down when she saw it had logged?

Meh... thats all i got

Friend was at work so he couldn't have logged on or switched puter on !

My home PC used to auto-join MSN everytime my parents turned the PC on, it would log me off from work every time, so had to ring them up to tell them to turn auto-join off.

Hmmmm I suppose it is possible that he had auto logon set and the babysitter switched the pc on.

Doesn't Windows auto-log in when you install it? And MSN auto-logs in when you install that?
You have to go and turn all of that off if you don't want it?

If its MSN messenger it often shows on mine people online who canot possibly be. For example a colleague of mine who died about a year ago still appears to be online from time to time. Its not any of his relatives using his old account its just an MSN glitch. The most common time you see this is if you logon and someone appears to be online, and when you say anything they appear to log off.

Yahoo used to do this too, but not used it for years.

My friend signed on whilst he was at my house. And he had is laptop with him. And it was turned off.

And then he told me that he'd found some very effective diet pills ^_^

I find that it often shows people as offline, who I know are online. I'll quite often be having a conversation with somebody who is apparently offline lol

That could be because they're appearing offline

Angelic, I get that too... Lol, I don't want to lose 5 pounds, I'm skinny enough thanks XD

EDIT

Jesus, within 15 seconds of me posting that I had 6 'friends' offer me pills, 'photos', and something 'supposedly' funny....

Naaa, I always ask them. It's just MSN being retarded.

Is it the MSN client that does this? Because as more and more of my contacts move over to libpurple driven clients, I see it less and less...

You mean on my end, or theirs?

I don't know about their end, but probably in about 80% of cases.

For me it is the MSN client for Mac.