MSN/Windows Live

[S O F I]

Has this system been widely compromised and no one is reporting on it?

A week ago, I go on my Windows Live account that I haven't been using for years now and notice a lot of recent e-mails from people I know and who I have on MSN. I realized that these e-mails weren't actually from them so I didn't bother to click anything in the content. What first got me intrigued was that these are all sort of tech-savvy users who grew up on the Internet. These weren't e-mails from grandma. Then, yesterday, a friend of mine starts chatting me up on MSN and sounds a bit weird. She says "Hey I just took this IQ test and only scored 113" and I was like "lol...". And then I realized it was a bot, fucking chatting with me on MSN! Fucking weird. So I just signed off. Today, my dad calls me up and he's like "Did you send me an e-mail or text message today?" I was like, no. Then I realized MY SHIT has been compromised too. What the fuck? For chatting with a bot? For not using my windows e-mail? What's going on...

 

[vg4030]

I got one of those emails from a friend of mine who runs his own computer business! I never use hotmail apart from for XBOX so my address book is pretty thin and he is the only 'tech savvy' dude on there. It was weired that he was trying to sell me viagra tho

 

[Jokerman]

I always send ppl emails like that. "Get your Bachelor's Degreee online in 6 months!"

 

[dilla]

My mom had a Hotmail account and it got fucked in the ass a few months ago. She wasn't gonna make the switch to GMail back then but once that happened, she made one and hasn't had any problems with it since.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Windows Live Spaces and Hotmail are plagued with these issues.

 

[masta247]

There was an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011 with huge security holes.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

The Windows Live Messenger is terrible. i preferred the one before

 

[Casey]

Microsoft's online services suck in general. I haven't used their Messenger in years and I sure as hell don't use Hotmail.

 

[Flipmo]

SOFI, stop sending me bullshit emails. I already got 2 of them, one of them might have asked me if i wanted to see naked women, but then i realized da si peder, so it couldnt have been you.

 

[_carmi]

well I delete them, one friend at a time. Fuck them spammers.

I liked MSN back in the days. Now they wanna add myspace and facebook. Hell no.

 

[Sebastian]

Same happened to me. Embarrassing.

 

[Pittsey]

My mum had the same issue, as have a couple of my friends. I found the easiest way to stop it is to switch to Gmail...

 

[Sebastian]

In fact, i just received two mails from your address, SOFI. Screw you.

 

[Bobby Sands]

yahoo messenger is a load of shite as well.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Yahoo used to be better than MSN. They both suck dick now.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Windows have tried to hard to make their Interface user-friendly, but its just ended up becoming inferior.

all i really wanted was my contact list to be maximised and each contact to have their own line. they should at least give an option for it. all they give now is social mode (or whatever its called) and compact mode.

 

[Prize Gotti]

my friends msn account had been comprimised a few months back, kept getting spam messages from her on msn when she hadnt been online for about a year. then recently got internet in her house again and shes totally locked out her account, password, reset password details had been changed.

 

[Synful*Luv]

I haven't signed on to my MSN acct in years.. it's probably deactivated. I used to LOVE MSN messenger though, spent hours chatting away on there. lol

 

[THEV1LL4N]

it was such a teenage thing? who remembers the msn messenger mods like msn druggy?

 

[S O F I]

Foreigners used MSN and ICQ, I think. Over here, everyone was strictly on AIM.