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Attacked by 369 bots, and now get error code 80048823 by freakychick on 09-13-2007 at 04:39 AM
Last night when I was on msn chatting with a friend, I had a massive amount of bots request to add me to their contacts list.
In the space of just 3 minutes or so, I had 369 requests to be added to my contact list from bots. I say bots, because I use IRC and see similar behaviour from drones that attack the network I use. Email addresses were usually a few letters with 5 numbers @msn.com
As this nearly caused my PC to melt down, I needed to shut down messenger so I used the task manager, my CPU was chugging away at 98%.
When I attempted to log back into messenger, I received error code 80048823. So, I tried another method of logging in, through hotmail, and got a similar error. I reset my account through the alternative email method, reset the password to something ludicrous, and attempted to connect again.
I waited till this morning and attempted to connect again, failed - account blocked. Changed the password again through email, waited, failed - account blocked. Obviously my account exists or I wouldn't be able to attempt the password reset. I have already checked the other thread here:
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=67...d=743515#pid743515
I have also uninstaleld and reinstalled Windows Live Messenger, and can use it, with a new hotmail account that I set up in the mean time as a temporary fix so I could still keep in contact with my SO. So there are no firewall issues / proxy issues or anything else of that nature to do with my connection.
My stats are:
Telstra Cable
Windows XP SP2 Professional
Windows Live 8.1 (build 8.1.0178.00)
Is there anything else that can be done. I would prefer not to write this account off, I have contacts in there going back 7 years I would rather not lose.
RE: Attacked by 369 bots, and now get error code 80048823 by toddy on 09-13-2007 at 04:50 AM
Sunshine's reply to Help! Error Code: 80048823
RE: RE: Attacked by 369 bots, and now get error code 80048823 by freakychick on 09-13-2007 at 04:54 AM
quote:
Originally posted by toddy
Sunshine's reply to Help! Error Code: 80048823
so..
sux2bme ?
I don't know what else to do, I lodged tickets and everything!
PS: I use firefox, not internet explorer.
RE: Attacked by 369 bots, and now get error code 80048823 by freakychick on 09-13-2007 at 09:22 AM
Can anyone assist me?
RE: Attacked by 369 bots, and now get error code 80048823 by freakychick on 09-13-2007 at 10:36 AM
OK
whatever they did has stopped and I was able to get back into my MSN account after 18 hours and blocked 369 spam email addies.
perhaps this thread could now be closed. thanks