WHEN I AM OFFLINE WHY DOES MY AVATAR SHOW UP IN MY SKYBOX? MY PARTNER HAS SEEN IT MANY TIMES.

[valerie Inshan]

It is impossible unless you gave your password to someone who login under your identity. When you are offline, your avatar is offline too, ergo invisible in SL.

[valerie Inshan]

It is impossible unless you gave your password to someone who login under your identity. When you are offline, your avatar is offline too, ergo invisible in SL.

[Malate Banufong]

There is a slight delay between logging off and your avatar disappearing in world. There is also the ghost avatar problem. This is usually caused if you crash whilst logged in, but, for this problem to affect you, it is very difficult to log in again as SL thinks you are still logged in. So, if you don't have problems logging in then you don't have the ghost avatar problem and as valerie said, it is not possible for anyone to see you.

[Rolig Loon]

Ghost avatars haven't been a problem since the server upgrades back in March. There have been no reports of ghosts since then. It is most likely that this is just a latent rez issue. Even after you have logged out, your av still remains visible for a few seconds. If the servers are slow, it could be longer.

[Painted Melody]

It depends on how you go "offline." Sometimes if you simply end your Viewer program operation by closing a window or terminating via WIndows Task Manager, SL will look at it like a temporary fault/connection glitch and keep you logged in to the Sim server. If that happens you will have to try twice, at least, to get logged in again. You often recieve a message, "the region is currently rebooting" or somethign like that. Then second time through you will be able to log in again, In between the faulty log off and the new log in, your avatar will continue to rezz in the Sim server at the same location as you logged out, but will no move, talk, etc. This is literally an after-image of your avatar, stuck in the Sim server's cache.