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.

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

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

IanS

Ta chaps.

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

Cheers - Phil

No problem here

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

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

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.

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).

I may be out of date on Hotmail security, but......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

 I use Firefox, no amazon spam here.

Hmmm...

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

Thanks again.

Cheers - Phil.

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

Thanks, Will.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 30 May 2017, 09:23:34 AM
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

No problems for me using it via Outlook.

Mollinary

I use Hotmail via Google Chrome but the only difference I have noticed is the recent and very annoying way the bu**ers have taken it upon themselves to categorise my e-mails into 'Focussed' and 'Others'.

Annoying.

If it's not broke then don't try and fix it just to justify your existence.

MickS

Pah !

Went into Outlook.....

Oooo,..... look...... both email addys in there need their passwords verifying.....
Did mine....Can get at it via Outlook....
Von couldn't verify hers.....So when we tried going in via Explorer, all the damn thing would do was log into MY account.

Apparently, there are an awful lot of folk with the same problem...but it's supposed to be fixed tomorrow.

We'll see. 

And I've got to change things on the PC tomorrow because of my freeserve addy being discontinued. 

My better half doesn't like the 'Focused' and 'Other' system either, Mick !

Cheers - Phil

"They've" fixed it, now.

Huzzah ! Mrs T will be a happy bunny.

Cheers - Phil

Mrs T is one of Hefner's employees?

Well, you kept that quiet.

You OIK !!

Cheers - Phil (Who's now worried that if he switches the PC off, he won't be able to log back in again........ because of all the faffing about he's been doing today, sorting out the problems that EE have caused deleting my old freeserve addy.  )