is hotmail down for anybody else?

[mmsmc]

for me it says the site is down due to tech difficulties

[xeriouxi]

I just tried one of my old accounts and it seemed to work fine for me... maybe it's back up now?

[hansdown]

Hotmail used to be very good, until MS bought it.

http://who.is/whois/hotmail.com/

[mmsmc]

nevermind, my account got hacked *sigh* for the fifth time


thanks for the help

[hansdown]

Sorry, mmsmc.

Gmail is quite good, if you would like to try it.

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&bsv=llya694le36z&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&from=login

[ikt]

nevermind, my account got hacked *sigh* for the fifth time


thanks for the help

How did your account get hacked?

[hansdown]

How did your account get hacked?

Something similar to this.

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2011/05/hotmail-exploit-has-been-silently-stealing-e-mail/

[lovinglinux]

nevermind, my account got hacked *sigh* for the fifth time


thanks for the help

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[smellyman]

Sorry, mmsmc.

Gmail is quite good, if you would like to try it.

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&bsv=llya694le36z&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&from=login

good call. gmail never has issues........

[sdowney717]

My hotmail was hacked and people were getting junk adware type email supposedly coming from me. Fix was to change the password. These emails never showed in my sent messages. I first noticed them when some contacts in my address's book were bad and these emails were kicked back to the inbox as un-deliverable, but did not care until some real contacts emailed me back and asked what this stuff was.

Fix was change passwords. I think someone got the password from one of the numerous online sites where I would register my email and use the same password as for my hotmail account.

it was not very sophisticated attack, people would get clickable links.
I went back and found one, this here was one of the links
http://toscochimica.com/find11.html

which chrome gives me a warning that the site has malware.

[haqking]

Hotmail used to be very good, until MS bought it.

http://who.is/whois/hotmail.com/

MS bought Hotmail like 15 years ago or close to....it had only been up and running like a year before they bought it...lol

[hansdown]

MS bought Hotmail like 15 years ago or close to....it had only been up and running like a year before they bought it...lol

Sadly, it didn't take 15 years to become what it now is. lol.

[haqking]

Sadly, it didn't take 15 years to become what it now is. lol.

I have had a hotmail account since it started in 1997 or so and ive never had a single issue with it, never been down, never not connected to MSN, not a single issue ever.

I dont use it as my main account but i still access it daily on my android phone and connect to MSN everyday in pidgin.

To be fair ive quite alot of accounts, gmx, hotmail, gmail, mail, various others and they aall have worked flawlessly without one issue ever.

;-)

[hansdown]

I have had a hotmail account since it started in 1997 or so and ive never had a single issue with it, never been down, never not connected to MSN, not a single issue ever.

I dont use it as my main account but i still access it daily on my android phone and connect to MSN everyday in pidgin.

To be fair ive quite alot of accounts, gmx, hotmail, gmail, mail, various others and they aall have worked flawlessly without one issue ever.

;-)

Fair enough.

Glad to hear something good about it.:D