Entering a contest without really entering?

[badgeaddict]

ewido from ewido.net or .com gets rid of keyloggers,malware and spyware

[ElitePirate]

This sounds like a bad glitch on pogo's end...hmm
Well, don't worry, if some one gets onto your account with out having your password, then there is nothing bad they can do to you.  You need password for mall and drawings.
Also, they can't change your password, because they need the current password to do so, if they report a lost password, they shouldn't have the password for your email address, and to change emails, you need a password...sooo....like chill
maybe they'll go get you the rank 25 badge in wonderland or something  :D

[justahumping]

ewido from ewido.net or .com gets rid of keyloggers,malware and spyware

Thank you!.... I am headed there now

[BadgeBabe]

One question I haven't seen asked: Have you ever let anyone you chat with on Pogo get a difficult badge for you, as so many people offered to do, say, in the Chess challenge recently? If so, that might account for the first change you saw.. not that they weren't honest, they may have accidentally changed your mini face if they were looking through your " closet" for fun. :)

** PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT HELP YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE***
Also, in addition to running AV, do you run a separate daily Adware program? AV software will not pick up on all Adware which is sometimes classified as malware.

A good free adware search and removal program  is called  Adaware and can be downloaded at www.lavasoft.com
Another fairly good free one is Microsoft's Anti-Spyware, found at www.microsoft.com but it's still in Beta and some people don't like Beta programs. It also detects some different types of programs than Adaware does, so they work well together.

A free and adequate AV program called AVG is downloadable at www.grisoft.com. It checks all email, incoming and outgoing and is fast too.

A free program called " Shields Up" which probes your ports to see if you have adequate firewall safety is free at Gibson Research, www.grc.com.

A free firewall is available for download at www.zonealarm.com.
I liked the free version much better than the " paid" super pro version, LOL. None of these programs have conflicts with each other, and all are small downloads.
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If none of this applies to you, is it  possible that someone in your house is able to log on to Pogo with your stored password? I didn't know this until recently, but on one of our computers, I can go to the sign on screen, do a fast double click on the screen name field and my screen name shows up in a drop down. Click once more and it's in place. Same with the former password. Even if you change it often, once you type it in once, if someone in your household likes to play pranks ( or play Pogo, LOL) might be able to sign in. You might want to try this and see if Windows stored your sign in info.
I have my browser set to delete all cookies when I close Internet Explorer. which prevents this.

If it's any consolation...
Many days, there are over 300,000 players on Pogo at the same time.
I've had my ranks in games go up and down wildly ( without autos running).
I also had a lot of problems with the correct token amount showing when I lived far away and probably was routed to a different token server on Pogo.
I've also been kicked out of rooms automatically. I guess someone wanted into the room and was using a backdoor program, not sure. :)
So, Pogo is not without its quirks but it is SO much better than it used to be.

Someone was asking a comparison question regarding eBay and Pogo today on here and I was reminded of how far both systems have come with their mainframe stability and added capacity. It used to be hard to finish a simple slots game without Pogo crashing, and it used to be hard to bid on something on eBay without a hangup in their system too.
Enormous growth on both sites in the past 3-4 years. :)

Hope you find the gremlin that's messing with your mini.  ;)
BTW, none of the programs I mentioned should interfere with Pogo or the autos at all as long as you don't do a system scan while an auto is running. :)