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| Thread ID: 121951 | 2011-11-23 00:35:00 | How to best deal with a hacked Hotmail account | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 1244977 | 2011-11-24 10:19:00 | Great advice already provided, the official suggestions on account recover is here (explore.live.com). One extra step I'd suggest from this is to add some account recovery options to make sure you can always get your account back. For porkster and mikebartnz, I wonder whether you've used it recently, and if so why you wouldn't recommend it? Hotmail is under heavy development and has regular updates (www.microsoft.com). It's fast, has nice integration with web apps, and does a great job on spam which it did have a problem with at one stage but that's years ago now. In my experience as a user of both, Hotmail beats Gmail for Outlook integration hands down, has less issues with false positives for spam than Gmail, and has a nicer UI (admittedly, a matter of taste). It's also nice that the web apps don't munge attachments like the Google apps do. Sweeping is incredibly useful. cheers W |
waldok (15185) | ||
| 1244978 | 2011-11-24 20:04:00 | Check the full headers, if there's something like Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; sender-id=pass (sender IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) then it's most likely a hacked account. If there's non-Hotmail smtp stamps then it's sent from elsewhere. | Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1244979 | 2011-11-24 20:52:00 | Hotmail is under heavy development and has regular updates (www.microsoft.com). In my experience as a user of both, Hotmail beats Gmail for Outlook integration hands down, Funny that, one MS product integrating with another MS product. As for updates, mmm, the net is full of complaints about hotmail. I wouldn't touch it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1244980 | 2011-11-24 21:21:00 | Funny that, one MS product integrating with another MS product. As for updates, mmm, the net is full of complaints about hotmail. I wouldn't touch it. +1 As for false positives, since I have had Gmail I have only had two (if my memory serves me correctly) so I can't see Hotmail being much better than that. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1244981 | 2011-11-24 21:22:00 | Hi Looks as if your email address has been harvested from the net.There is NO solution to this. Once a spammer has your email address there’s nothing you can do to stop messages being sent either to or from your address. Spammers harvest email addresses from distribution lists in email headers on chain emails. Spam is then sent out to those harvested addresses, and the sender is spoofed, also using one of those email addresses. Your own PC is not infected. Its just a case of ridding it out untill they use someone elses address,which may take a week or more,or change your email address. |
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