GR7 Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 today's morning i tried to sign in to my msn account on MSN msgr.....it seems someone tried to guess my password and hotmail blocked ANY login (even if its with the right password) so if i want to **** of someone, i just try to login with a wrong password and he cant get to his hotmail inbox or cant login to msn?? what the hell is that, microsoft looks stupid with these tactics does anyone know how i can fix that, or where can i report something like this? it sucks cause someone got a hold of my account and will keep trying to login just so i can not. man am i ****ed.....ill kill the person who did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Well, change the password and you should be fine? EDIT: Wait, I read this wrong, but I don't understand it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretforce Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 when will people learn not to use hotmail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CdCViRus Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 write to hotmail support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 when will people learn not to use hotmail. i use hotmail as my 'spam' mail .. keeps my real mail clean and tidy :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Veteran Posted February 4, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 4, 2004 moved to internet, network & security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Try it again in 24 hours- also clear your cookies and ie temp cache- incase it was someone on your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GR7 Posted February 4, 2004 Author Share Posted February 4, 2004 it was noone in my computer. the thing is, if i want to bother Blaise, for exmaple, i just make a lot of attempts to login to his account on MSN and not even he could log in, even if he was entering the right password. im sick of this stupid security ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeIvan Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Hotmail is bitchy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeIvan Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 doble post error :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted February 4, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 4, 2004 and this is hotmail's fault somehow? :huh: you chose a bad password, it's your fault your account was stolen. unless that's not what happened :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3njo Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 i think he said that somebody just tried to login w/ a wrong password with numerous attempts, then hotmail blocked that account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted February 4, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 4, 2004 Thats happnened to me in the past a few times, but don't worry just wait a while and then retry and it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mipra Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 well..u can try e-mailing them about this. Again, I would never suggest anybody using a web-based e-mail as their primary e-mails....oh well.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee.B Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Should it be web based or should you forward Hotmail thru Outlook Express i would think that without password you wont get in your Hotmail + the hotmail forwards to a client will become a paid option pretty soon with the new extra storag subscriptions. I did not seem to find anything about Hotmail blocked accounts though I did hear that you account is blocked for a while when someone else tries to hack it. yet I know someone who was able to recover it by phone so .. You may want to join Hotmail support here: http://support.msn.com/contactus.aspx?productkey=hotmail UPDATE On a French forum i have read that MSN France some infos are required : This is a translation (sorry if it does not always sound english ): "Please you will need to provide: Your Hotmail or MSN Email address Another email address where you can be joined. The name, birthdate and place of birth below should be the same as hose you hav ementionned for your Hotmail or MSN account First name Familt name Date of birth Country, State Zip code Date of your last passport connexion (last time you were able to access your hotmail account) or Approximative date of your account creation Optional data to provide If some of the data mentionned above are not correct, any other information about the account can be useful to determine if you truly are the account holder Any old passwords 5 MSN Messener contacts 10 email addresse part of your address book Your personal folders created in the account Any other information maybe helfpul Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee.B Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I have asked around and here is extract of a dialogue thru Messenger...Maybe what I was said will clarify the thing: >>>-But I think after two blocks, MSN Hotmail records the IP address of that user trying to enter your account. >>>-well that's what i thought but look, my ISP makes me change my IP every time i connect to the internet >>>-It's a way to prevent unauthorized access--and once it's blocked, it stays blocks--but someone has to enter a wrong password quite a few times, and a successful log-in resets that counter. Yeah, but MSN and other people can look up your IP address on the ARNIN/blah blah blah (there's a different database for parts of the world) and will see it's owned by your ISP. It reports the activity to you ISP in hopes of the ISP investigating it, which will know who used that IP address at that time. If anything, MSN may consider blocking the ISP out of their Hotmail servers if the ISP doesn't wish to cooperate and there and continued abuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotege Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Y A H O O ! E M A I L i hear there is a free signup and use for existing Notmail users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got3n Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Just wait a day and yo should be able to log back in, this happended to my grandpa once and he got back in the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmailer Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Excuse me if this has already been explicitly or implicitly answered and I've overlooked it, but does anyone know if it might be possible to use the change password/lost password procedure, in conjunction with the user's security question, as a means around merely waiting for the lockout period to end, as suggested in this post on the emaildiscussions.com forum: http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showth...9134#post169134 If not, it seems rather lame to bother having the user choose a security question/answer if they aren't even going to be used in such a security issue. But then, it is MSN/Hotmail, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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