how bad are microsoft

x in the city

folks,

Had no fewer than all 3 of my hotmail accounts hacked i found out lately :rolleyes:


luckily I only used them for crap and my gmail account is fine, I changed all my log in accounts and my banking pin just in case.

The msn messenger i used to use was hacked, along with all my other hotmail addresses, bit of a joke, and I let microsoft know why it is gmail I use and not hotmail. rubbish

JimmyCrackCorn

it may be your pc or one you use no Microsoft.

Or even one on your network (not aware of any trojan that does that yet...)

Trivarion

I agree with JimmyCrackCorn's guess- the problem is on your end, on your own PC or one you login on. Be sure to run Sypbot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html) or Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org/) to check if you have trojans on your PC. Also maybe install MS Securty Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/) or Avira (http://www.free-av.com/) to be on the safe side. And run Window Updates often.

wolfric

I don't really like the ease at which people throw around "my account was hacked". Accounts rarely get "hacked" in the real sense of actual hacking going on. More than likely you signed up to some dodgy service using the same password as your email that was designed to grab them. Or else you've been using an infected machine that has malware to do the same thing. (Or chose a really easily guessable password or your friends/rivals see you type it in and like to F*** with you)

There's nothing wrong with hotmails security atm compared to googles (even though i prefer google as a email provider). If hotmail actually did get hacked you'd hear about it.