Hotmail.

[Techno]

Anyone else having problems with 'getting at' Hotmail for the last couple of days ?

Personally don't use Hotmail....except in dire emergencies....But Mrs T does.
She had to go a very convoluted route to get at her emails, this morning, using Explorer rather than Firefox....
Via Firefox..... Just goes to an error page.

There was a lot of harsh language, 'cos adverts kept popping up....and when she did get into her account there was even more bad language, 'cos of umpteen emails 'from Amazon' telling her she'd cancelled an order.

Just wondering if anyone else was having probs.

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

Not with Hotmail, but my Yahoo did have a Spam mail re: a cancelled Amazon order, which was filtered straight to the spam folder.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Cant help with that one - don't use HOTMAIL, it's horribly insecure.

IanS

[Techno]

Ta chaps.

Can I just ask you, Steve ?
Do you use Firefox or Chrome ?

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

No problem here

[FierceKitty]

My Hotmail's fine, but I've been getting the same spam for a couple of weeks.

[Techno]

Ta, Guys.

Again...Can I ask if you use Firefox or Chrome ?
(I expect it'll sort itself out in a couple of days, anyway.)

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

My Hotmail is also working fine. I actually pay for the enhanced version so don't seem to have any issues described. Ian's comment about security is worrisome however.

[d_Guy]

Btw - just went through my spam filter - about a dozen bogus Amazon Order cancellations (plus the usually Nigerian princes and an invitation to have lunch at the Whitehouse).

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I may be out of date on Hotmail security, but......

For spam -

1) Check the origin address - a mail purporting to come from BT wont have a sender address of fred@yahoo.co.uk (sic).

2) If a genuine sender bombards you with 10+ per day these may go into spam - the AI thinks they are even if not.

3) Windows 10 doesn't like Yahoo mail very much, and isn't too happy running Chrome at times.

IanS

[petercooman]

 I use Firefox, no amazon spam here.

[Techno]

Hmmm...

It wasn't so much the spam Von received, rather the problem getting to her hotmail account.

Thanks again.

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Try outlook site, then login using name@hotmail.com

[Techno]

Thanks, Will.

Cant help with that one - don't use HOTMAIL, it's horribly insecure. IanS

To my non computer literate self.....It appears that Firefox doesn't like Hotmail.co.uk.

From the message appears on the screen when I go to Hotmail through Firefox then Google, I get a message implying that the site is insecure.....Just as Ian says.....and Firefox doesn't want to 'pass it on'.

Hey ho....... Von will either have to go through Outlook or Explorer. or I'll have to change some settings in Firefox.

Thanks again, chaps.

Cheers - Phil

[mollinary]

No problems for me using it via Outlook.

Mollinary