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Hotmail gone haywire? by Azure on 12-10-2007 at 08:29 PM

My screen shot. Hope this bears no relation to me clicking on you are blocked.com a few nights ago. What is the problem and how can I solve it? Must I delete the email account? How about my msn account?

(oh I cant paste my screen shot here! How do I do it?)

Let me try describing it. The tabs and windows are no longer contained in their proper places. I have the whole stuff, from inbox, compose new msg, to multiple selected contacts in one page. Is this a spyware in action?

Thanks!

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Nathan on 12-10-2007 at 08:34 PM

Erm, it sounds like it hasn't loaded everything.

Press Ctrl + f5 and it should fix it.

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Chris4 on 12-10-2007 at 08:51 PM

If you put your username and password on that site, change your password immediately.

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Jimbo on 12-10-2007 at 08:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
If you put your username and password on that site, change your password immediately.

Dont rush to conclusions, it may just be as nathan said, not everything was loaded form the cache correctly

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Chris4 on 12-10-2007 at 09:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jimbodude

quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
If you put your username and password on that site, change your password immediately.
Dont rush to conclusions, it may just be as nathan said, not everything was loaded form the cache correctly

I no that. I'm just saying.. if he did enter his email and password on that site, he should change his pass, right?

RE: RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by djdannyp on 12-10-2007 at 09:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chris4

quote:
Originally posted by Jimbodude

quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
If you put your username and password on that site, change your password immediately.
Dont rush to conclusions, it may just be as nathan said, not everything was loaded form the cache correctly
I no that. I'm just saying.. if he did enter his email and password on that site, he should change his pass, right?

correct, if a site has your password, it doesn't matter whether that's the cause of the error or not, you should still change it straight away

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by rav0 on 12-10-2007 at 11:19 PM

Azure, change your password if you have given it to an untrusted website, and also your secret question.

Concerning your Hotmail experience, Napbree is probably correct that the page was just incompletely loaded. There may also have been some error at Hotmail that is fixed now, so check it again (change your password and secret question while you're there).

To post a screenshot:

Press the print screen key to copy the current screen to the Windows clipboard.
Paste the screenshot into Paint
Save the screenshot from paint as a PNG format file
Use the attachment feature of our forum and upload the file you just saved

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Azure on 12-12-2007 at 03:21 PM

It works!!! I pressed Ctrl+F5 and my hotmail is back to normal!

Amazing, as I did try to refresh the page (what is the difference by pressing Ctrl?) and even opened hotmail with another web browser, Mozilla, all to no avail.

Ohh hope that darn website didnt do anything dangerous to my computer and MSN. I dont even dare to sign in to MSN anymore.

But thanks people!!

RE: RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by djdannyp on 12-12-2007 at 03:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Azure
It works!!! I pressed Ctrl+F5 and my hotmail is back to normal!

Amazing, as I did try to refresh the page (what is the difference by pressing Ctrl?) and even opened hotmail with another web browser, Mozilla, all to no avail.

Ohh hope that darn website didnt do anything dangerous to my computer and MSN. I dont even dare to sign in to MSN anymore.

But thanks people!!

F5 just reloads the page from your cache. Ctrl+F5 forces your browser to re-download the page

Those website normally don't do anything too malicious. Just change your password and then you can use MSN just fine

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by rav0 on 12-13-2007 at 05:17 AM

Ctrl + F5 in Internet Explorer is a hard refresh. In a herd refresh, the current webpage, and all associated items are redownloaded and then processed. In a normal refresh, the current page is redownloaded, but associated items (eg images, stylesheets, scripts) mey be just loaded from cache again.

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Azure on 12-13-2007 at 04:19 PM

It happened again! Is it usual for this to happen, having to press Ctrl+F5 everytime you enter hotmail? >_< I think I have to post the screen shot. A question: Where can I find my screen shots after I press the 'Prt Sc' key? I cant find it anywhere.

Im getting very paranoid. My friend said that my msn personal message has changed to the previous one. The one that I have most recently typed was announcing to evrybody NOT to click on the link that 'I' may have sent. Now that this warning message has been changed to the previous one, I was wondering, have 'they' discovered my attempt to warn and have somehow, from some personal message history, extracted the previous one to put on?

I dont even dare to install back my MSN! Many late nights running many anti-spyware programmes! :,(

RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Shippo on 12-13-2007 at 04:40 PM

I'm getting it myself at the moment. Something going on their end I believe...

As for the picture, after hitting Prnt Scrn, go into Paint and push "Ctrl + V" to paste it there. Then save the picture.

RE: RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by owenw on 12-14-2007 at 01:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Azure
It works!!! I pressed Ctrl+F5 and my hotmail is back to normal!

Amazing, as I did try to refresh the page (what is the difference by pressing Ctrl?) and even opened hotmail with another web browser, Mozilla, all to no avail.

Ohh hope that darn website didnt do anything dangerous to my computer and MSN. I dont even dare to sign in to MSN anymore.

But thanks people!!

I believe its a common occurance, because of the nature of the AJAX programming of Windows Live Hotmail. You see, if one part doesn't load, the rest of it doesn't seem to work properly. It's quite complex!

#1 Do you have a slow connection? Cause if you do, don't even bother with the Full Version, try classic. (Slow referrs to a dial up modem)
#2 I also reccomend clearing your cache.
If you are using firefox, Hit Tools, then "clear private data" and tick all the boxies.
As for IE, if you're running IE7 press tools, then the first option. Click all the boxes.

#3 Next, check your hotmail again. How is it now?

In regards to this website, no you shouldn't have typed it in, but too late now eh?

#4 Did you change your password yet? If not, when you do, make it complex, use lots of numbers and Capital, and lowercase letters, just in case.

Your WLM case seems a bit weird, do you know if that website downloaded any software? It may have also integrated in your WLM Software.

#5 Get the latest WLM @ http://get.live.com, install it.
#6 Before logging in, make sure you have a copy of Spybot S&D, if you don't know what it is, google it, its one of the best free ones out there.

Once it's installed, run a full scan. Delete any of the RED objects that also appear.

#7 Next, restart your computer (just to be sure).

Now, try logging into your WLM, and changing something. Technically, it should be fine now.

Let me know how you go with that.

RE: RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by rav0 on 12-14-2007 at 07:23 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Azure
A question: Where can I find my screen shots after I press the 'Prt Sc' key? I cant find it anywhere.

When you press printscreen, the screenshot isn't saved. It is placed on the Windows clipboard, as though you used the copy command in a graphics program. To get it, you have to paste it into a graphics program, like Paint.

RE: RE: RE: Hotmail gone haywire? by Azure on 12-18-2007 at 05:39 PM

Thanks for trying to help!

I have scanned with all the anti-spyware programmes i have, with nothing (for once in a few days!!) found, not even tracking cookies. I think it's because i no longer enter msn and have been compulsively deleting my cache every few hours.

After that i re-installed WLM. Then something happened. I couldnt enter WLM and tried a few times. (Oh no!!) First, they said wrong email, next, problem with firewall, then finally, problem with internet connection. After all that, i managed to enter msn after a few weeks of absence. *sob*

Is it the spyware that is blocking me from entering msn? I know that the problem is far from solved. Anti-spyware programmes only detect the symptoms but do not pluck the whole thing out like a root of evil. Grrr.

Currently, Im still waiting a reply to my "Hijack This" log at another website. It has been a week.. Online users are bombarded with rubbish like these spyware, virus etc daily