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Old 17-03-2007, 10:21 PM   #1
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Hotmail help

I changed my hotmail password about a week ago. Now occasionally when I do a typo on my password I get the message:

"You have entered your password incorrectly too many times or someone else is attempting to access your account"

This is after one wrong attempt. This has happened on about 3 occasions now, so I can only presume that someone is trying to access my account.

I am wondering what to do.
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Old 17-03-2007, 10:46 PM   #2
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Re: Hotmail help

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I am wondering what to do.
switch to Yahoo or Googlemail/Gmail .... Hotmail's always been inferior
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Old 18-03-2007, 1:06 AM   #3
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Re: Hotmail help

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I changed my hotmail password about a week ago. Now occasionally when I do a typo on my password I get the message:

"You have entered your password incorrectly too many times or someone else is attempting to access your account"

This is after one wrong attempt. This has happened on about 3 occasions now, so I can only presume that someone is trying to access my account.

I am wondering what to do.
You answered you own question. Someone else is attempting to gain access to your account by trying to guess your password.

I would recommend that you change your password to something incredibly hard to guess.

Something like qw34.Hg>/ would be a start.
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Old 18-03-2007, 1:22 AM   #4
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Re: Hotmail help

See my thoughts are that someone has been accessing my account before I changed my password last week. The password is now virtually impossible to guess. But I am wondering if I can do something re: who is trying to access my account.
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Old 19-03-2007, 4:03 PM   #5
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Re: Hotmail help

Add a number to the email addy and setup a new account or see if Hotmail themselves can do that then who ever's trying your account won't scupper your chances of logging in.

Liam
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Old 19-03-2007, 4:10 PM   #6
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Re: Hotmail help

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I changed my hotmail password about a week ago. Now occasionally when I do a typo on my password I get the message:

"You have entered your password incorrectly too many times or someone else is attempting to access your account"

This is after one wrong attempt. This has happened on about 3 occasions now, so I can only presume that someone is trying to access my account.

I am wondering what to do.
Report it to Hotmail
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
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