Windows Live Hotmail

[Flisker]

I never use Hotmail anyway, I use my own email address for msn and a russian email provider works great

[Recursion]

It is insecure tbh, all you need is for the person you want to hack to send you an email, and you have to know theier date of birth, pretty easy stuff to do.

But yeah, I like hotmail I don't think its that bad tbh.

Umm no.

[Joe!]

Umm yeah, that way you can get there IP address etc etc and use the good ol revert page.

[Leetzgirl]

What? rofl

[Jordy]

Its a mess and is confusing? Let me see you do anything better, IMO I like Hotmail.

One Advert at the top of the page... :rolleyes:

Spam, meh, I like to filter my own out TBH.

Insecure? Let me see you fight against millions of users. Personally, I have only been "hacked" once, through my own stupidity as a fricken noob when I was 7. But low and behold, I got the account back and everything is fine, I learnt from that experiance.

First of all it is insecure, it has improved slightly in the last year or two with the introduction of Postscodes or ZIP Codes but too many times people have pretended they've lost their account, complained to MSN Support and been given the account!

That one advert is annoying, it's usually animated and stuff like 'Deal or no deal', it also advertises on the bottom of your emails. And why go for advertising when you can go for a provider with hardly any advertising? Gmail just do some text adverts at the side of your email, which are actually more useful than they are annoying as they're related to the email your reading.

Mess and Confusing? The whole live/passport/hotmail network confuses me I'm afraid, I tried to sort out my options the other day but I just kept bumping into the wrong 'Options', it doesn't really matter if I can't build a better email service provider? Because I could use a client of my choice or use gmail's webmail which is incredibly clean and easy to use, and a lot faster too as it's not got many graphics.

Spam? Well if you like manually sorting spam I guess that's up to you but most people, including myself, get sick of sorting spam out, especially when you get a lot. Gmail's spam filter's have never slipped up once, and considering I get around 150 spam emails a month that's good.

[Xarea]

Just get Gmail instead.

[Kardan]

Umm yeah, that way you can get there IP address etc etc and use the good ol revert page.

One link on the site means you only need someones answer to their secret question to get the account back...

Don't need ZIP/Post code or DOB...

Really unsafe.

[:job2]

Well stop giving your email out to p*rn and other sites you dont need to subscribe to and you wont get any spam! Hotmail is easy to get your account password restored because so many people use, a lot of them dont know much about computers, they need to make things like password resets etc easily accessable and easy to fill in for the 'noobs' its not Microsofts fault if some 'realy cool' people think there clever by hacking hotmail accounts.

I personally use windows live mail at home because its easier than loading a webpage and I like its simplicity, at school I use Hotmail though

[Jordy]

Well stop giving your email out to p*rn and other sites you dont need to subscribe to and you wont get any spam! Hotmail is easy to get your account password restored because so many people use, a lot of them dont know much about computers, they need to make things like password resets etc easily accessable and easy to fill in for the 'noobs' its not Microsofts fault if some 'realy cool' people think there clever by hacking hotmail accounts.

I personally use windows live mail at home because its easier than loading a webpage and I like its simplicity, at school I use Hotmail though

That's untrue, all it takes is for one of your contacts to be hacked and they'll of salvaged their contact list, including you. That's one source of spam and also there's bots automatically guessing email address's, you could never subscribe to anything and you'd still end up with spam.

[reeana]

LOL our school can't block hotmail because we have to use it to get our work from home on

We use Fronter.com