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Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability
chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers discovered a new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and the problem only seems to be getting worse."
Is it really possible to get even more spam using hotmail?
You expect Microsoft to be ahead of the spammers.
I had a hotmail account once, but the spam level got so high that I abandoned it. It was about 10 times heavier than say Yahoo mail. But now Yahoo is spamming up also, I cannot even imagine 10 times that amount. I think that harddrive makers are in kahootz with spammers.
Table-ized A.I.
Another function added at the expense of security and usability.
...and a distinct lack of beer.
I get the distinct feeling that if Microsoft organised a piss up in a brewery there would be sausages, crisps, plenty of seating, a cool entertainment system, probably even a stripper...
Beep beep.
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Why would a nerd ever use hotmail? Don't they all have their own domains?
> The bulk of it is 419 spam, which is reported to be largely done by hand by itinerant Nigerians.
Itinerants? I only get it from ambasadors, generals, and other important public officials.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Ugh...
Hotmail supplies me with the following things:
Slashdot Updates
Porn
Oh yeah, and I occasionally get asked if my privates are O.K.
Check.
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I also get no spam in my main hotmail account other than the occasional (monthly?) message from the hotmail system itself.
I did once set up an account at sendmesomejunk@hotmail.com, and the box was filled in less than a week, mostly with stuff addressed to a single person, so I think it's possible that many people get spam because they picked an address that was already in use in the past, but abandoned.
On a mostly unrelated note, I once had an address that was me@myisp.net, and got tons of mail from people at my ISP that were trying to send stuff to themselves.
Since US butts are, on the whole, larger than in the rest of the world, I can guess that a metric buttload is larger than a US buttload.
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crack team of MCSEs (if such a thing exists :-)
Of course they exist!
MCSEs only use the finest crack.
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