Any increase in Hotmail account hijackings?

digger · ๑۞๑ Joined: 29 Mar 2001 Posts: 2655

A hotmail user that I know just spammed their address book. I was wondering if there were any new hotmail exploits making the rounds, rather than this being a normal case of webmail hijacking through user error.

They ran a virus scan and came up clean, not that that is any guarantee these days.

I sent them this link:
http://www.windowslivehelp.com/thread.aspx...4941e8f0ec
Is langware on to something there?

OG1 · Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1193

This is somewhat normal for Hotmail because it is not as secure as gmail.

Paddy · Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 18:48 pm Post subject:

Was wondering if they are a Face Book user ?

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/ja...ebook.html

Had to tonight from Face Book users ...

Paddy.. Mad

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jras20 · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 349 Location: Tx

My AOL email account address book was hacked into, everyone in my address book was sent a email. I only use my AOL Mail as a 2nd email from my gmail.