There are a couple of reasons.

0) you might be able to clear the cookie with this page ...
Use this one ... Wrote a quick fix page that is a bodge to correct the .YAFNET_Authentication cookie only for my site.

http://www.marinetteboat.com/forum/zapcooky.aspx



1) You are using the overly helpful internet explorer (6 especially) and it's providing the old password.
- Clear the browser cache then
- get a new password from the site (or contact me)
- Clear the browser cache again
- close all browser windows
- login
- change the password to something you remember (and write it down)
- Clear the browser cache again
- close all browser windows
- login with the password you just changed to
so far this has always worked
(or use Firefox)
2) You have a virus
- get and run an antivirus program (sheesh)
3) You need to do #1 again because you did not clear the cache or are doing things out of order.
- If you are saving the password, and you change it, Internet Explorer does not clear the old one correctly.
- You changed the password and did not wait for the email.
4) You forgot your user name or password spelling
- Capitalization and spacing must match
(CAPTJOE is not CaptJoe is not CAPT JOE and is not Captjoe)
- The caps lock key is down.


I am trying to write a marinetteboat.com delete cookie (expires) function that willfix this when it happens. basically, the browser has a corrupted .YAFNET_Authentication cookie that needs to be deleted. This is in the marinetteboat.com site.

This is much easier in firefox to find and delete the one cookie.

To the clear passwords in IE8.
Internet Explorer 7
From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Delete Browsing History.
Next to "Temporary Internet Files", click Delete files... .
To delete your cookies, click Delete Cookies.
To delete Passwords, click the delete passwords check box.

Click Close, and then click OK to exit.