I have been looking at this. It appears that as long as you are automatically logged in (via the box you check on initial login), when you connect, the failed login number is not reset. Once you have to login (new PC, new location) the failed login number comes into effect and gets reset on successful completion.ringswraith wrote:Dunno if this counts or not, but I just went here on my new PC running Windows 7 and after one(!) attempt to log in I am treated to the "you have exceeded the number of attempts to login" page and had to log in with the Captcha thing...
Seeing as this is my first time here on this PC, I'm a bit worried that I'm getting the message because someone else is trying to log in on my name. Hence why I'm hoping this is just a glitch...
It is, of course, possible that someone is trying to login, masquerading as a user. Anyone (non-logged in guest) can see the user names just browsing the forums.
I will look into this some more and post back here if I find out anything definitive.