Comments on: Moving from Gmail to Hotmail: the disastrous conclusion

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:44:22 +0000

You’re all ignoring the obvious: gmail hacked it.

They know everything about you from their own social-engineering.

By: Obi Two

Obi Two — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:39:49 +0000

Any final analysis?

By: David West

David West — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:51:36 +0000

IMPORTANT
I just had an experience that I must write about, and my google search sent me here.
I downloaded Windows Mmessenger yesterday. I do have a Hotmail account, but have removed all contacts.
My ‘New” messenger started up with about three contacts – sorry, can’t check back – I have deleted it using IOBIT Uninstaller, which worked wonders for my registry.

It seems that two of the contacts were ‘girls with webcams’, and I decided to chat with one of them, and to try to help her. Whilst doing so ‘girl-with-webcam-2′ contacted me, and when I replied, the reply was addressed from’girl-with-webcam-1′. It was NOT addressed from me, as I would expect. Maybe I poked a wrong button, but I hadn’t done any button-poking that I recall.

This is horrendous. Some poor person could be completely, unnecessarily and permanently embarrassed by having comments put in their mouth.

I hope you can understand the implications, and can somehow let the Messenger users know.
If you mail me, I can perhaps be of more help.
I hope you get to read this

Kind regards

David

By: John H

John H — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:12:43 +0000

I don’t doubt the importance of password security, but is this always a case of hacking? Couldn’t it be SPOOFING instead? It’s my understanding that, because of the inherent insecurity of the email system, the same thing can happen if ANYONE with your email address in their address book has a virus or trojan on their PC. As PC professionals know, the return address for a message can be set to anything the emailer chooses, and it’s not difficult to forge the sender address. Unless I’m wrong, this effectively means that anyone can send out bulk emails using anyone else’s address, unless their ISP has strict measures in place to prevent this. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:14:26 +0000

Same here. My wife’s and daughter’s hotmail accounts both hijacked and sending out similar spam within hours of each other, then my father-in-law’s (on both their contact lists) a few more hours later. Wife and daughter haven’t used hotmail in weeks. Is this an attack on hotmail?

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:11:24 +0000

Husbands hotmail hijacked last night and spam sent to all contacts. Hotmail blocked address and notified him to reset password with a code texted to his mobile phone. All worked well. HOWEVER, and very strange, one of his contacts and workmates was also hacked at the same time.

By: Hwsuite

Hwsuite — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:52:11 +0000

My Hotmail a/c was hacked a few days ago, how it’s resolve

By: Fergus

Fergus — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:08:19 +0000

Slightly embarrassing for the editor of PC Pro to have an unsecure password! I’m genuinely surprised that anyone that is at all techy doesn’t use some kind of password management software.

I use and highly recommend Passpack. I have over 550 unique logins stored in it (I run an online business so probably more than most).

It is genuinely scary that if someone who should know about online security doesn’t practice good techniques then what does everyone else do!

By: Carpentry in London

Carpentry in London — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:27:32 +0000

Hotmail is used for MSN. That`s all.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:26:41 +0000

Again anecdotally, I receive perhaps a dozen a year ‘hacked’ mass emails from friends’ hotmail accounts, and I have never received a single one from gmail, or any other email provider.