Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: purge occurred, as now it's 195 mails instead of 1200+ in my unwanted email folder in my webmail. Normal POP3 and Gmail accounts seem to stay completely clean, no trouble whatsoever. Michael details a known outbreak below; it's strange I have not seen this either on my

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: Michael details a known outbreak below; it's strange I have not seen this either on my work network or home computer (yet!). Regarding Hotmail vs Gmail, I know there's a technique they use against hotmail where they can simply guess valid addresses by using [EMAIL

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
I assume you mean you are receiving lots of emails with viruses attached, which is not really a virus outbreak, but merely spam which is normal. Or do you mean the actual Hotmail system has been hit by a virus? Something has to send mails with the attachment.. Anyway, looks like a purge

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:38 PM 11/24/2005 +0100, you wrote: Anyone else seeing massive virus outbreaks? I never imagined being able to use 40% of a 250MB hotmail emailbox (add 3% each hour), but MS manages to not filter these (75KB attachment). Even the delete junkmail button times out with 1400 emails. Pretty