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25 Aug 03 - 11:53 PM (#1008126) Subject: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Mark Cohen 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 |
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26 Aug 03 - 12:07 AM (#1008132) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Amergin No, Mark that just occurs from time to time...I have seen that every so often...it is etiher something down...or maintenance.... |
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26 Aug 03 - 01:07 AM (#1008148) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: GUEST No doubt...you have seen a similar notice on the Mudcat.
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26 Aug 03 - 02:49 AM (#1008160) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Amergin 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. |
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26 Aug 03 - 03:04 AM (#1008163) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Mark Cohen 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 Tnoh,2 lmDp |
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26 Aug 03 - 05:21 AM (#1008196) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Gareth Hmmm ! Mark is that the Hul9 virus ??? Gareth |
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26 Aug 03 - 09:49 AM (#1008323) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: GUEST Fairly regular Hotmail message. |
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26 Aug 03 - 09:53 AM (#1008326) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Peg Happens ALL THE TIME on AOL. |
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26 Aug 03 - 12:25 PM (#1008422) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: SeanM 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 |
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27 Aug 03 - 12:01 PM (#1009012) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: GUEST 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. |
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27 Aug 03 - 12:24 PM (#1009031) Subject: RE: Tech: Hackers attacking hotmail? false alarm? From: Amergin 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... |