Re: Contacts adding without permission

Jonathan, I don't know if they are spammers or not, no way to tell. It doesn't matter to me if they are spammers, because no one should be able to add themselves to someone else's contact list without the owner's permission. I have to consider this a significant security breach.

I have a cable modem and leave my computer on 24 X 7 for business purposes. I use Microsoft Security Essentials, and run a very lean and clean system with Windows 7 64 bit. I've only had this problem of unauthorized contacts come about over the last three months since I loaded Windows 7, but don't know if there is a correlation or not.

---
frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...out-permission

Looks like hacked live hotmail accounts yet again...........
Someone ends up with loads of user name/passwords and adds the users to
their contact list.
To stop it, I signed up for Live ID with a non hotmail email address.

"akatwn" </> wrote in message
news:enFbwq%...
> Jonathan, I don't know if they are spammers or not, no way to tell. It
> doesn't matter to me if they are spammers, because no one should be able
> to add themselves to someone else's contact list without the owner's
> permission. I have to consider this a significant security breach.
>
> I have a cable modem and leave my computer on 24 X 7 for business
> purposes. I use Microsoft Security Essentials, and run a very lean and
> clean system with Windows 7 64 bit. I've only had this problem of
> unauthorized contacts come about over the last three months since I loaded
> Windows 7, but don't know if there is a correlation or not.
>
> ---
> frmsrcurl:
> http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...out-permission
>

I changed my windows live id to a strong password, yet contacts on a daily
basis still add themselves to my messenger without my permission (I
immediately delete and block the contacts). Is it possible that after I
changed my password that my hotmail account is that quickly hacked?

Is the only way to stop this nonsense to "close my current windows live id"
and sign up for another id with a non-hotmail email address?

This lack of security has me on the verge of switching from windows live
messenger to another messenger service.


"Kevin" wrote:

> Looks like hacked live hotmail accounts yet again...........
> Someone ends up with loads of user name/passwords and adds the users to
> their contact list.
> To stop it, I signed up for Live ID with a non hotmail email address.
>
> "akatwn" </> wrote in message
> news:enFbwq%...
> > Jonathan, I don't know if they are spammers or not, no way to tell. It
> > doesn't matter to me if they are spammers, because no one should be able
> > to add themselves to someone else's contact list without the owner's
> > permission. I have to consider this a significant security breach.
> >
> > I have a cable modem and leave my computer on 24 X 7 for business
> > purposes. I use Microsoft Security Essentials, and run a very lean and
> > clean system with Windows 7 64 bit. I've only had this problem of
> > unauthorized contacts come about over the last three months since I loaded
> > Windows 7, but don't know if there is a correlation or not.
> >
> > ---
> > frmsrcurl:
> > http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...out-permission
> >
>
>
> .
>