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Hotmail email issues

Lilysmom — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:00:35 GMT

Hi guys. Yesterday, I had a message in my in box purportedly from Microsoft telling me my outlook hotmail account had been compromised and providing a link to change my password. I did not use the link but went to microsoft outlook and changed my password. After a successful completion of the new p/w I could not get into my hotmail account as the new password was not accepted on my ipad. So...I went to settings, deleted the hotmail account and then set up the new one. Tried to open mail and STILL could not get in. Can anyone help with this? This is my main email ... Yikes. I'm off to try this on the laptop and see if I get anywhere there. TIA for assistance. LM

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Allegheny — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:37:51 GMT

Hi Lilysmom, anymore it seems like we need to be rocket scientists to figure out what is going on with our devices.

Is there anyway you can get into a live person chat with Microsoft or Apple for assistance. I've had a similar problem with my Mac. When I enter a password it will ask me if I want the password remembered. When I select yes, it is stored in my system. When I change passwords all H breaks loose if I am not careful. This is only my guess what may be going on since you are using an Apple product.

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Akane — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:41:10 GMT

Hotmail stinks.. too much spam gets through their filters. Try Gmail

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Allegheny — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:09:27 GMT

Lilysmom, Try looking at these sites, it may help. I'm not real good at posting web addresses, hopefully you can paste into your search window and they will come up.

windows.microsoft.com/en-us/forgotten-password

https://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx

Like Bikke, I use a gmail email in addition to the one I use thru my service provider.

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Lilysmom — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:23:21 GMT

OMG these electronics are enough to drive one up the wall!!! Finally got it straightened out by going to my laptop. Seems for some reason they (hotmail, outlook, whoever) don't want to deal with you on tablets and such when these things happen. I reset my p/w on the laptop, went to ipad and deleted the old account, made a new hotmail account with the new p/w and off I go. Thanks for your help. Always so much appreciated. Don't know what I would do without my QVC pals. God Bless. LM

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Lilysmom — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:24:27 GMT

PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

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glb613 — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:46:01 GMT

On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

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Allegheny — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:06:11 GMT

On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No. Most people find one in particular they like. I use Gmail as a secondary mail account for people, web sites, vendors, etc who I do not want to have access to my primary email address which I get thru my provider. I like Gmail because it operates similar to Outlook which I used when I had a PC.

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Lilysmom — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:33:43 GMT

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I'll be all right for a while now!

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151949 — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:38:31 GMT

I have a chromebook so I do NEED a g mail account but I use hotmail as my e mail. I simply went to MSN as my opening page and I could open my hotmail there - then I bookmarked the page and put it on my home page. I have not gotten any alerts from Hotmail.

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Lilysmom — Thu, 01 May 2014 21:44:16 GMT

Happy housewife, I have to move this to my desktop for DH. Can't right click it anymore so will try what you have done. Thanks for that.

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shesallthat — Thu, 01 May 2014 22:20:50 GMT

On 4/30/2014 glb613 said:
On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

that is very wrong! i never did any of those things and always gots tons of spam and awful emails. i got rid of hotmail years ago because of it after having it over 6 years. there was always some kind of virus associated with that account the last few years. prior to that i had no problems.

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glb613 — Thu, 01 May 2014 23:09:10 GMT

On 5/1/2014 shesallthat said:
On 4/30/2014 glb613 said:
On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

that is very wrong! i never did any of those things and always gots tons of spam and awful emails. i got rid of hotmail years ago because of it after having it over 6 years. there was always some kind of virus associated with that account the last few years. prior to that i had no problems.

It's not wrong. I've had a Hotmail account for over 10 years and never any spam.

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Akane — Fri, 02 May 2014 00:20:43 GMT

On 5/1/2014 glb613 said:
On 5/1/2014 shesallthat said:
On 4/30/2014 glb613 said:
On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

that is very wrong! i never did any of those things and always gots tons of spam and awful emails. i got rid of hotmail years ago because of it after having it over 6 years. there was always some kind of virus associated with that account the last few years. prior to that i had no problems.

It's not wrong. I've had a Hotmail account for over 10 years and never any spam.

Never?

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shesallthat — Fri, 02 May 2014 13:55:40 GMT

On 5/1/2014 Bikkie said:
On 5/1/2014 glb613 said:
On 5/1/2014 shesallthat said:
On 4/30/2014 glb613 said:
On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

that is very wrong! i never did any of those things and always gots tons of spam and awful emails. i got rid of hotmail years ago because of it after having it over 6 years. there was always some kind of virus associated with that account the last few years. prior to that i had no problems.

It's not wrong. I've had a Hotmail account for over 10 years and never any spam.

Never?

it is VERY WRONG!!!! becasue it happened to me! i know you think you know it all but you don't. as i said - NONE of those things were done by me because i knew better. the account was rarely used but anytime i logged on i had tons of email that was spam. ONE person had my hotmail addy and it would send her odd emails supposedly from me and some had a virus so i just finally closed it and stopped using it. so yea - it does happen.

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aproudmom — Fri, 02 May 2014 14:12:28 GMT

I have had Hotmail for many years. There were times that there was so much "bad" mail I wanted to switch. I got other accounts but never made them my main account. A month or two ago Outlook (Hotmail) must have done some changes. I very rarely get any mail I don't want any more. There have been a couple that have crept in saying Facebook, but I blocked them.

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robomo — Fri, 02 May 2014 15:02:55 GMT

I'm really sick of Hotmail and all their stupid spam and all the info they always want to know. I had to change my password too and every single day they ask if it was me that did it. It takes 30 days for them to quit asking.

But I use this Hotmail account for garbage and junk and stuff I don't want in my regular e-mail account. It's WAY better than Yahoo (garbage central) on it's worst day though. And I haven't used g-mail yet.

Part of this stuff with Hotmail might be the virus that Internet Explorer had warned us about. MSN is notorious for viruses. The patch to fix it was in my updates this morning though.

Oh and I never go to questionable sites where spam e-mails come from. I am very careful about what I will even open in my browser. There are just a lot of spammers out there and sometimes they get through for awhile. Eventually, they go away. Don't EVER open one of those and ask to be removed from their list. It just gives them a valid e-mail address.

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Wen_Woman — Sun, 11 May 2014 01:37:57 GMT

I switched from yahoo mail to gmail. No experience with hotmail. On two separate occasions, my yahoo mail was compromised and embarassing spam went out to everyone in my address book. Never again.

I don't click on links ever or go to bad sites, and I got tons of spam. So, I do believe it happens. The nature of the spam was oftentimes very offensive. I don't have that problem with gmail.

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glb613 — Sun, 11 May 2014 10:40:01 GMT

On 5/1/2014 Bikkie said:
On 5/1/2014 glb613 said:
On 5/1/2014 shesallthat said:
On 4/30/2014 glb613 said:
On 4/30/2014 Lilysmom said: PS ... I have yahoo mail and hotmail. Do I need gmail too?

No, I have a Hotmail account, don't get any spam and I'v the same account for years. People who get spam usually go to questionable places, click on links, download "stuff" or other type of unsafe surfing.

that is very wrong! i never did any of those things and always gots tons of spam and awful emails. i got rid of hotmail years ago because of it after having it over 6 years. there was always some kind of virus associated with that account the last few years. prior to that i had no problems.

It's not wrong. I've had a Hotmail account for over 10 years and never any spam.

Never?

Never and I use my Hotmail account for FaceBook, contests, Big Fish games, etc. It's not my main e-mail account but I use it everyday. I'm also fortunate to have friends who don't send all of the garbage e-mails that are often riddled with malware.

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shesallthat — Tue, 13 May 2014 03:06:21 GMT

On 5/10/2014 Wen Woman said:
I switched from yahoo mail to gmail. No experience with hotmail. On two separate occasions, my yahoo mail was compromised and embarassing spam went out to everyone in my address book. Never again.

I don't click on links ever or go to bad sites, and I got tons of spam. So, I do believe it happens. The nature of the spam was oftentimes very offensive. I don't have that problem with gmail.

of course it happens even though some people refuse to admit it. as i said - one friend had my hotmail account and she never sent me anything outside of a simple email. no links to other sites,no "you have to read this/see this" - no "gargbage emails",etc. ever! just simple communications between college friends about our families. we both have our own home biz's and would not ever do anything that would cause a problem that could keep us from using our computers for who knows how long if it was really bad!