Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?

Subject: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 11:53 PM

Just tried to access my supplemental email account on Hotmail, and got the message "the server is too busy," which I've never seen before. I seem to recall reading something about a coordinated hacker attack on August 26, and it's 5 minutes before August 26 on the East Coast (only 5:55 PM here in the islands). Vanguard? or coincidence?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 12:07 AM

No, Mark that just occurs from time to time...I have seen that every so often...it is etiher something down...or maintenance....

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 01:07 AM

No doubt...you have seen a similar notice on the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 02:49 AM

Uh, sorry...but MSN is by no means perfect...I am sure it is just an outage at the moment. They do occur from time to time.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 03:04 AM

Well, you never know. For example, have you read about that new virus that turns any text you type into gibberish? Fortunately, my antivirus program vpci ytp dd5b c/;pv ownoiiz 3.3ld s0c8sh sli sowb-07w is socgs.l

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Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Gareth
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 05:21 AM

Hmmm ! Mark is that the Hul9 virus ???

Gareth

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 09:49 AM

Fairly regular Hotmail message.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Peg
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 09:53 AM

Happens ALL THE TIME on AOL.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: SeanM
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 12:25 PM

It's happening all the time on *all* major mail servers as far as I can tell.

I work tech support for a webbuilder company, and we use a rudimentary Outlook system. We're still averaging tens of thousands of Sobig.F messages daily. At the height, I believe we were averaging around 250k for the first two or three days.

That's for somewhat less then 10k active members.

Now imagine Hotmail's accounts... or Yahoo's... or AOL's...

M

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 12:01 PM

I have noted that hotmail and my local server are significantly more sluggish lately, no matter what speed the modem says it is working at.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm?
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 12:24 PM

The speed the modem is working at is very misleading....to get a more accurate picture you would have to conduct an actual speed test...