Hotmail.. someone trying to hack me? [Archive]

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:01 PM

chroot

Dec16-03, 05:06 PM

Must be those 3r33t H07M41L haxstas..

- Warren

dduardo

Dec16-03, 05:14 PM

You must have a crummy password then. You need something like this:

wTtor2382*$pe25[]2340\'20347sflasfi/-+

I'm sure an old dictionary attack could get your password

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:14 PM

Originally posted by chroot
Must be those 3r33t H07M41L haxstas..

- Warren What?? *starts googling*

Contacting hotmail customer service has proven unsuccessfull btw [!:)]

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:15 PM

Originally posted by dduardo
You must have a crummy password then. You need something like this:

wTtor2382*$pe25[]2340\'20347sflasfi/-+

I'm sure an old dictionary attack could get your password No, it wouldn't [!:)] and I have been changing it frequently these past few days, just to be on the safe side..

chroot

Dec16-03, 05:16 PM

No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.

Your search - 3r33t H07M41L haxsta - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
- Try fewer keywords.

They're tricky -- I mean really tricky. You'll never spot them on google. No one knows they even exist. Except us.

- Warren

chroot

Dec16-03, 05:17 PM

Monique,

Do you have a nose ring???

- Warren

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:20 PM

Originally posted by chroot
They're tricky -- I mean really tricky. You'll never spot them on google. No one knows they even exist. Except us.

- Warren Oh, wait, I once ran into that, yes, you mean software.. I was thinking a bug..

Monique,

Do you have a nose ring??? lol, another friend also asked me like that [:D] no, I must've smudged the picture with my touchpad when resizing or selecting the image, probably didn't have the select function on when I clicked on it [6)] hoped noone would notice [t)]

NateTG

Dec16-03, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by Monique
For the past week I have been getting errors, that I tried accessing my account too many times with the wrong password, so it locks me out and tells me to wait until the block is taken off [g)]

But I never used a wrong password any time [?]

Someone had the same experience? Maybe someone is trying to hack into my account.. [g)] that wouldn't be good.. nice friends I have..

Luckily I am able to bypass the block and get in anyway, but it is starting to annoy me.. let's see what hotmail has to say about it (when they take the effort to actually provide service).

It's probably someone you know being stupid. Last time I checked, Hotmail didn't have the best security in the world. Things might have improved, but I doubt that anyone with a clue would go after a random hotmail account with a dictionary attack.

An alternative explanation is that someone else misspelt their username.

PS, 4R3 U s00r3 that 37r337 chr007 |-|4XX0rS B1fF iS funny?

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:22 PM

Again:

You have made too many unsuccessful sign-in attempts with an incorrect password for: ...

Your account is temporarily unavailable. This is a temporary delay that helps prevent someone else from guessing or obtaining your password.

Ok, time to make the password a little harder still without forgetting it myself..

chroot

Dec16-03, 05:24 PM

Originally posted by Monique
Oh, wait, I once ran into that, yes, you mean software.. I was thinking a bug..
No, I mean the 3r33t H07M41L haxstas... they're practically invisible until *BAM* it's all over. They'll reorganize all your folders, I swear... every last one.
no, I must've smudged the picture with my touchpad when resizing or selecting the image
Good, good, I was thinking such a tacky piece of jewelry would spoil your pretty face.

- Warren

chroot

Dec16-03, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by NateTG
37r337
37r337??? Okay buddy, you're out of the secret club. [:D]

- Warren

Monique

Dec16-03, 05:41 PM

I wonder if they log IP addresses at hotmail..

The_Professional

Dec16-03, 06:15 PM

I just read that hotmail's customer service sucked. I won't expect more from a free service.

Well, your Ip address shows up on their server logs whenever you use hotmail..

Monique

Dec17-03, 12:17 PM

Yes, it sucks.. and it is not free, I paid $20 or something to get extra storage..

You search and search and search, finally find a form which allows you to send them a message, you fill it in and send it, after which there is an error message and you never hear from them again.

Now I am locked out since about 24 hours already.. everytime I want to login I have to reset the password.. great.

Monique

Dec17-03, 01:01 PM

Unregistered Eform source.
DCOPS tracking code : E234GH81.59.21.12022222U

[g)] bad! bad! hotmail! [!:)] argh

chroot

Dec17-03, 01:03 PM

Why do people use Hotmail anyway? What possible advantage does it have over any other kind of mail account?

- Warren

Monique

Dec17-03, 01:20 PM

So which other mail accounts are good?

himanshu121

Dec17-03, 01:22 PM

yahoooooooooo[o)]

chroot

Dec17-03, 01:49 PM

Doesn't ever ISP on earth offer a mail account? Heck, even physicsforums.com offers one. Mail accounts are everywhere.

If you want a really GOOD mail server, I've heard good things about mailshell.com.

- Warren

Monique

Dec17-03, 01:51 PM

I don't like yahoo..

chroot

Dec17-03, 01:53 PM

I like mailshell.com mainly because of its excellent spam filtering and disposable email address management.

- Warren

Monique

Dec17-03, 02:04 PM

Disposable email address??

Any I never get any junkmail or spam, so that's no prob for me ::)

Monique

Dec17-03, 02:05 PM

Today I read in the newspaper that 47% of all sent mail is junkmail, and that it will be about 54% in 2004.. [o)]

The_Professional

Dec18-03, 12:55 AM

People make money from sending junk mail. From average folks to millionnaires. That doesn't mean it's right, but I'd take that over the Government regulating Internet mail.

And there's loads of spam blocking software, and most are free.

chroot

Dec18-03, 01:06 AM

You're allowed to put a "No Solicitors" sign on your door, and solicitors are required by law to heed it. The same should be true of an email box.

- Warren

The_Professional

Dec18-03, 01:32 AM

Well this is the Internet, different countries have different laws and regulations. That maybe true here in the US but it won't apply in a foreign country where the e-mail is sent to.

Or we can also use copyright laws..

Link: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54645,00.html

A hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry embedded in e-mails will be used to guarantee that any message containing the verse is spam free. And if spammers dare to hijack the haiku, they will be aggressively sued for copyright infringement.

Achy47

Dec18-03, 01:43 AM

Does someone have access to your cookies? (No pun.)[8)]
I mean do, you log in away from home and not check the "I'm away from home - for god's sake don't save cookies or logon information checkbox." Most sites have some sort of feature like this.

Cookies can be exhastively cracked. And windows has a nasy habit of saving your logon information in the user profile of the accounts you may use at school or work.

you may wan't to check this ou and or use passwords wih a good level of complexiy/obscuriy.

Good luck against the 1337 script kiddies.[:D]

Greg Bernhardt

Dec18-03, 01:46 AM

Pauly Man

Dec18-03, 04:30 AM

Monique my sister often has the same problem you seem to be having. Have absolutely no useful advice to give you, but at least you can feel a little better that it's not just you that hotmail is screwing over. [:((]

russ_watters

Dec18-03, 09:21 AM

Originally posted by chroot
You're allowed to put a "No Solicitors" sign on your door, and solicitors are required by law to heed it. The same should be true of an email box.

- Warren And a regular mail box. But it doesn't work that way either.

Guybrush Threepwood

Dec18-03, 10:44 AM

Originally posted by Monique
I don't like yahoo..

why? WHY? WHY?

Mr. Robin Parsons

Dec18-03, 12:06 PM

Originally posted by Guybrush Threepwood
why? WHY? WHY?
Agreed, and why not simply empty out the account, change the name, get another account...they are free ('Cept your $20.00)...try Yahoo! too......

P.S. Couple of weeks ago, or as you put it "past weeks", did you load anything onto your computer that was new?, as pehaps you have aquired a bug? of sorts? have you tried symantec's site? they can scan(?) your computer for you and for the latest, or 'old' stuff too...

BoulderHead

Dec18-03, 12:13 PM

It is a fact that there exist downloadable programs supposedly able to hack hotmail accounts. The workings of the programs I know nothing about, but I have heard people complain that someone highjacked their hotmail account.

Monique

Dec18-03, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by Achy47
Does someone have access to your cookies? (No pun.)[8)]
I mean do, you log in away from home and not check the "I'm away from home - for god's sake don't save cookies or logon information checkbox." Most sites have some sort of feature like this.

Cookies can be exhastively cracked. And windows has a nasy habit of saving your logon information in the user profile of the accounts you may use at school or work.[:D] Actually, the first thing I did when I noticed the problem is delete all my cookies [:D] I always check the 'don't remember email address' button on public computers too :)

[b]originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons: Agreed, and why not simply empty out the account, change the name, get another account...they are free ('Cept your $20.00)...try Yahoo! too......

P.S. Couple of weeks ago, or as you put it "past weeks", did you load anything onto your computer that was new?, as pehaps you have aquired a bug? of sorts? have you tried symantec's site? they can scan(?) your computer for you and for the latest, or 'old' stuff too... No, didn't load anything new.. thing seems to have blown over, I can login again normally and have once again changed the password just to be sure :) Let's see how it holds up over the next few days :)

Why I don't like yahoo.. I think it is ugly and unorganized looking :) and I never had problems with hotmail before. Is yahoo really that much safer?

Thanks for all the advice btw [:D]

The_Professional

Dec18-03, 11:29 PM

How about...Physicsforums E-mail. (http://physicsforums.mail.everyone.net/email/scripts/loginuser.pl)

Monique

Dec18-03, 11:38 PM

[6)]

Mr. Robin Parsons

Dec19-03, 08:18 AM

So far, of the e-mail account that I have had, both the MSN one, and the Two Yahoo accounts, were maintained spam free, the Yahoo account (the one I have left) to this day, is Great! (YAaHOOOOOOOO!)

Getting a 'good password' helps though, but nothing is "un-crackable" if they really want it....too bad(?)...

Being in places wiht publically accessable computers I can tell you that they get some 'trojans' etc. (One site was "fished" {persistent pop-up offer} for someone to "download it in" they 'replaced' that computer, in the end) and the like, that are pretty devious in their appearance, and use.

lellynz

May25-04, 03:44 AM

For the past week I have been getting errors, that I tried accessing my account too many times with the wrong password, so it locks me out and tells me to wait until the block is taken off [g)]

But I never used a wrong password any time [?]

Someone had the same experience? Maybe someone is trying to hack into my account.. [g)] that wouldn't be good.. nice friends I have..

Luckily I am able to bypass the block and get in anyway, but it is starting to annoy me.. let's see what hotmail has to say about it (when they take the effort to actually provide service).
hi
plz my email address is lellynz@hotamil.com
plz send me and solve my problem i m really to much woried in this.
14 days has passed but facing still that msg.
You have made too many unsuccessful sign-in attempts with an incorrect password for:

altafmusfirah@hotmail.com

Your account is temporarily unavailable. This is a temporary delay that helps prevent someone else from guessing or obtaining your password

lellynz

May25-04, 03:47 AM

hi
plz my email address is lellynz@hotamil.com
plz send me and solve my problem i m really to much woried in this.
14 days has passed but facing still that msg.
You have made too many unsuccessful sign-in attempts with an incorrect password for:

altafmusfirah@hotmail.com

Your account is temporarily unavailable. This is a temporary delay that helps prevent someone else from guessing or obtaining your password

theamazingTWOeyedman

May25-04, 05:48 AM

Hotmail sucks! Get your own domain :rofl:

To be serious I've never heard of that problem... How exactly are you logging into hotmail? And do you work for the FBI/CIA or something? because i dont know why someone would spend that much time trying to hack your email... :surprise:

lellynz

May28-04, 04:48 PM

i wrote a lot of email about my id
but noone is replying that what happened with me id
altafmusfirah@hotmail.com
buttbutt
as is said b4 in my email that i hav v.important email address in my contacting list
and feelng trouble to contact with them and i also hav v.important email in this
id.
i dont know why you r serious in me....
id ; altafmusfirah@hotmail.com
pwd: buttbutt

16 days hav passed when i entrd my correct password and id he says that
your account hasbeen blocked
You have made too many unsuccessful sign-in attempts with an incorrect password for:

altafmusfirah@hotmail.com

Your account is temporarily unavailable. This is a temporary delay that helps prevent someone else from guessing or obtaining your password.

plz enable it or tell me what should i do at this moment?
i am toomuch woried about it.
hope now i will hear from u soon.
lellynz@hotmail.com
nadeem427@hotmail.com
mnadeemonline@yahoo.com
wasiminline@hotmail.com

The_Professional

May29-04, 12:22 AM

Why are you giving us your hotmail password? No one will crack it for you here

Unless you have some government secrets there then I won't even bother with it, just create another account.

Dagenais

May29-04, 11:59 PM

Why do people use Hotmail anyway? What possible advantage does it have over any other kind of mail account?

Good question. I use to love Hotmail, but I found providers that were so much better.

I ask people why they stick with Hotmail. It's not the best, not the safest and a lot of unwanted crap gets sent to your inbox.

But Hotmail's popular, and they use it because there friend uses it - plus it allows them to use Messenger.

So which other mail accounts are good?

Fastmail (http://www.fastmail.fm) is absolutely awesome. You can change stylesheets, it's anti-spam, you have blockers (hard to use), a great support forum, and it is...fast.

It's free, but loads of great features can be bought for $15 or by yearly fees.

It was recommended to me after I got tired of the popular free services like Yahoo, Mail and Hotmail.