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O.P. The hacker caused havoc!
Hello all

I hope someone can help me with a problem I have.

About 4 to 5 months ago my @hotmail.com email account was hacked and apart from losing a few important emails and having all my email contacts spammed with great deals on prescription meds, the hacker deleted all of my msn contacts :(

Devastation!

The hacker did a great job. I asked a friend to add my email to her msn the other night and the request didnt pop up on my msn... it only works if I add other email addresses it seems!

Does anyone know how I can restore all of my old contacts as well as take my live account out of "lockdown" mode?

Thanks in advance

Ali
11-10-2010 02:43 PM
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RE: The hacker caused havoc!
Welcome to the forum,

That is a change microsoft has made to force you to add eachother. It is a pain and no one knows why they did that.

What do you mean by lockdown mode? If you can log into the account and still have a list of contacts you can export them. If not then you are out of luck unfortunately.

Also the section of the forum you posted in is related to Messenger Plus! Live. This should have been posted in Windows Live Messenger. I have requested to have the thread moved.

This post was edited on 11-10-2010 at 04:52 PM by matty.
11-10-2010 04:51 PM
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That is a change microsoft has made to force you to add eachother. It is a pain and no one knows why they did that.
maybe to stop people from adding random emails
11-10-2010 08:32 PM
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That is a change microsoft has made to force you to add eachother. It is a pain and no one knows why they did that.
maybe to stop people from adding random emails
That sounds like a viable reason actually. Prevents a lot of spambots.
11-10-2010 08:34 PM
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So if I add someone they will no longer get a box asking them to Accept or Decline? :S
11-10-2010 10:08 PM
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Interesting.  How long ago was this change made?
11-10-2010 10:42 PM
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So if I add someone they will no longer get a box asking them to Accept or Decline? :S
Exactly. You have to request that they add you as well.
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Interesting.  How long ago was this change made?
Not exactly sure. It has been for a few months... maybe mid 3rd quarter.
11-10-2010 11:14 PM
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RE: The hacker caused havoc!
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So if I add someone they will no longer get a box asking them to Accept or Decline? :S
Exactly. You have to request that they add you as well.
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Interesting.  How long ago was this change made?
Not exactly sure. It has been for a few months... maybe mid 3rd quarter.

i did get a popup the other day. Is this a WLM 2011 thing? im on WLM 2009 so that might explain it :P
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11-11-2010 01:01 AM
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RE: The hacker caused havoc!
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Originally posted by Chrono
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Originally posted by matty
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Originally posted by Chrissy
So if I add someone they will no longer get a box asking them to Accept or Decline? :S
Exactly. You have to request that they add you as well.
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Originally posted by Adeptus
Interesting.  How long ago was this change made?
Not exactly sure. It has been for a few months... maybe mid 3rd quarter.

i did get a popup the other day. Is this a WLM 2011 thing? im on WLM 2009 so that might explain it :P
I'm on WLM 2009 too, but I didn't receive an add-friend request the other day when my friend said he'd added me. :-/
11-11-2010 01:28 AM
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RE: The hacker caused havoc!
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Originally posted by matty
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Originally posted by Chrissy
So if I add someone they will no longer get a box asking them to Accept or Decline? :S
Exactly. You have to request that they add you as well.
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Originally posted by Adeptus
Interesting.  How long ago was this change made?
Not exactly sure. It has been for a few months... maybe mid 3rd quarter.
AFAIK if you don't get invites at all, it is a fluke, not a feature...
But I don't have all the info.

This post was edited on 11-12-2010 at 03:42 AM by CookieRevised.
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