Guest guest Posted August 6, 2002 Report Share Posted August 6, 2002 ---- Original Message ----- Paranormal_Research Monday, August 05, 2002 8:58 PM Getting a LOT of Spam on your Hotmail Account? Go to the: PERSONAL PROFILE section of " Options " & scroll all the way to the bottom of the page! Mushrooming spam bugs Hotmail users Prerna K Mishra New Delhi, August 06 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_32104,0008.htm If you are a Hotmail user, your trust stands breached. A couple of months ago, MSN added two boxes to your profiles and checked them for you. What those harmless looking tiny boxes have done is thrown open your personal information to anyone, anywhere. If you want to know what we are talking about, log on to your Hotmail ID and go to Options. As you scroll down, you will see the two small ticked windows that have made it possible for spammers to plunder your e-mail account. While checking one has made your e-mail ID available to spammers, marking the other box has opened up your entire registration information to anyone interested in it. This includes details such as your date of birth, country and region, gender, accessibility, time zone and occupation. According to Microsoft, this has happened due to a technical snag that occurred when the company was trying to integrate the 'Passport' services into their services portfolio a couple of months ago. " There has been some confusion over this and the anomaly is being taken care of. It was a temporary problem and we are committed to not sharing personal information without the rs knowing, " says a Microsoft spokesperson. While Microsoft sorts out its problem, Hotmail users' in-boxes are inundated by spam or unwanted mail. Says IT consultant Ravi V. Prasad: " Whether Hotmail does something now or not, the database has already been compromised. It certainly is a breach of trust but with the vaguely worded privacy policies of most of the free e-mail sites today, who decides what you would call breach? " asks Prasad. , for instance, changed its privacy policy a few months ago, informing its rs that the site has planned to commercialise the database. But they at least posted a mail to rs asking them to fill out a form in case they wanted to remain unlisted. But with Hotmail, such courtesy are yet awaited. No wonder Hotmail users are feeling harassed by mushrooming spam. " I have to clear my mailbox every two days as the amount of space taken by the spam fills up my account size limit of 2 MB. So you have reminders from the account member service which asks you to shift or delete your messages every other day, " says Pawan Kaul, who is an avid Hotmail user. So while Hotmail sorts out whether to acknowledge the goof-up or not, all that users have to do is individually undo the two checked boxes at the end of the personal profile form, which specifies your preferences. That could take care of some amount of spam that you have been deleting from your inbox everyday. That's till Microsoft has a remedy. §*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§ Paranormal_Research - With It's Roots Into The Scientific Realm Paranormal_Research Subscribe:......... Paranormal_Research- digest emails:..... Paranormal_Research-digest Individual emails:. Paranormal_Research-normal To Post:........... Paranormal_Research To :.... Paranormal_Research- § You are receiving this email because you elected to § **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml §*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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