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Hotmail Problems

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Recently Ive been gettin very large e-mails from people I dont know, the contain a virus so i just delete it, but im recieveing them non stop, I cant block them cos my block list is full (fuckin spammers). And I keep missing e-mails cos im full. This happened to any1 else.

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Change your setting so that you only recieve email's to your inbox from those in your address book, everything else will go to junk mail and you can check that for any other messages you may be expecting. This way your account should stay open.

    Susie :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    it's happening to me as well. They all seem to be 313Kb in size and contain a control panel applet, ending with *.cpl

    I've had emails from people claiming i've emailed them with it, and i've been getting emails from other, normal hotmail users. I even recieved an email from myself! The only other strange thing is that it is in Spanish :confused:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Report the problem to hotmail too, you never know they may try and fix it



    stranger things have happened, or so they say
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My hotmail account is "temporily unavailable" at the mo:rolleyes: :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    is that the same one you get thats written in spanish?

    sorry for the weird question, but i got a few of those off my mates dad (hes a kool bloke but i was suprised when i got about 7 mails from him;))

    as far as i (and others ive spoke to) are aware, it seems to be some kind of worm that gets to you and then posts itself to everyone in your address book.

    like Susie said; get all your mates addresses and put them in your address book, then set your junk mail filter options to exclusive.

    edited to say that I've also had them from people I dont know

    ~Braidsta:)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yeh, i get them, the people who i got them off, i added them to my messenger list, and they hadnt sent them, mine were in spanish and when i translated it on http://www.freetranslation.com, it said something about passwords to animal porn :rolleyes:

    and as for just getting emails from people in my address book, i recieve a lot of mailing list stuff aswell that i like to read
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Makes me glad to own a Mac.

    Almost no viruses that can effect me.



    (that isn't an invite to try to make my Mac go 'pop')
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    uno de los tantos milagros?, la imagen de cristo plasmada entre los arboles.

    Is this the message people are getting? If so I got some emails which contained viruses as attachements.

    The message above is something about Jesus and how great he was/is.
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