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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 2, 2011 7:28:09 GMT -5
I've changed my Captain Zedo email address to:
CaptainZedo|at|mail.com
Hotmail is getting just to hard to deal with. I'm having hijacks by spammers almost daily and they are useless. Gmail is worse. Google doesn't even admit they have any problems.
I've had three mail.com accounts with no problems. They're operated by AOL, so I'm a little surprised that it's free and it works.
Anyway, it will be a week before I can update the site, so update my address if you write me. I will not be checking the Hotmail account anymore starting now!
:Edit by Pilot, I modified your email so it wont be as easy for a bot to pick it up.
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Post by rotary on Aug 2, 2011 11:45:49 GMT -5
Maybe next time type it in paint and save it as a picture when you post in in the forum? It's always fun to get messages like 'hey I saw you on some pictures there, Please rate them!' together with some obscure link to mssngr.picas.ru\index.php?mailID=**********@hotmail.com...
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Post by RoadDemon on Aug 2, 2011 15:25:00 GMT -5
Does that include your codepunk address as well?
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 2, 2011 15:33:55 GMT -5
Does that include your codepunk address as well? My codepunk address is still on Hotmail for the time being. I will move it, but it will be after I've updated the Hardwar site. I'll announce the codepunk change here, too.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 2, 2011 15:35:51 GMT -5
Maybe next time type it in paint and save it as a picture when you post in in the forum? It's always fun to get messages like 'hey I saw you on some pictures there, Please rate them!' together with some obscure link to mssngr.picas.ru\index.php?mailID=**********@hotmail.com... Did you get some spam from my email account? That's a big problem with Hotmail, and why I'm leaving them. They have horrible password security and it's a nuisance changing my password and trying to recover accounts daily.
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Post by rotary on Aug 2, 2011 16:49:08 GMT -5
Maybe next time type it in paint and save it as a picture when you post in in the forum? It's always fun to get messages like 'hey I saw you on some pictures there, Please rate them!' together with some obscure link to mssngr.picas.ru\index.php?mailID=**********@hotmail.com... Did you get some spam from my email account? That's a big problem with Hotmail, and why I'm leaving them. They have horrible password security and it's a nuisance changing my password and trying to recover accounts dailly No don't worry, I only get those from several relatives who apparently click any link they find in their mail secretly changing my account already did a great job. Now I have a trusted account for non-spammers and bussiness contacts only. The other one I check monthly (scroll through spam and only click familiar contacts). Works for me, and most never noticed
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Post by ouch on Aug 2, 2011 19:51:08 GMT -5
Heh, I've been with yahoo for 13 years... Yeah way back when I was high school. Their spam filters are pretty good.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 3, 2011 6:46:53 GMT -5
I've heard some good things about Yahoo! mail. I avoid gmail because it's pretty easy to hack individual accounts. Hotmail's older servers just aren't secure. You can get the entire server's list of accounts and passwords and decrypt it.
My accounts get targeted due to the large address books, or so I'm told by Hotmail. That makes sense. They told me all the things I could do to make things better and I told them it was easier to move to responsible service.
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Post by riedquat on Aug 3, 2011 14:19:11 GMT -5
Sorry Captain, I just emailed you, disregard that email please... it seems I have not enough permissions to edit my own address book in my own hard drive...
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 8, 2011 12:35:10 GMT -5
Sorry Captain, I just emailed you, disregard that email please... it seems I have not enough permissions to edit my own address book in my own hard drive... I dislike Windows new permission system. I think it's because I'm just not used to it. I remember being annoyed by Linux's account setup and security in the old Windows95 days. It's not really Microsoft's fault. I just don't find their account management very intuitive or very secure given the effort. Firewall still sux.
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Post by riedquat on Aug 8, 2011 12:53:45 GMT -5
This time its not Microsoft's fault; neither any new permission setting, I'm in an old pc at work, lately migrated from win2k to xp, some software reinstalled and some other just tweaked to make it work, in the end it is a nightmare of broken things and duplicated things, migrated permissions and user profiles; all because doing a fresh install was going to affect another zillion of little software applications and back-ups... government made software mainly... a pain to deal with it in any basis...
So just accidentally discovered I can't open my own address book on Outlook...
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 8, 2011 13:05:48 GMT -5
This time its not Microsoft's fault; neither any new permission setting, I'm in an old pc at work, lately migrated from win2k to xp, some software reinstalled and some other just tweaked to make it work, in the end it is a nightmare of broken things and duplicated things, migrated permissions and user profiles; all because doing a fresh install was going to affect another zillion of little software applications and back-ups... government made software mainly... a pain to deal with it in any basis... So just accidentally discovered I can't open my own address book on Outlook... Even with the best mirroring software migrating a disc can be a mess. I always get hung up on removing and installing drivers for the new machine. That is always an issue. Sometimes it goes well. Most of the time, there some stubborn driver files that have to be removed with security tools. I do think Windows7 does a good job of addressing XP's and Vista's problems overall, including security.
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Post by Pilot on Aug 9, 2011 9:17:02 GMT -5
Anyone hear of the GMX email service, does anyone know if it is any good?
Also Z it may help to post your email on the web with, captain_zedo|at|hotmail.com instead of the traditional way since bots do patrol the web looking for email addresses.
One thing you can try Riedquat is to right-click then go to Properties> then Security> Advanced> Owner you may be able to reassign yourself as the owner doing that with some tinkering. (As long as you are in the Administration class instead of the User class.)
Side note: You should NEVER mess with ICACLS in XP or Vista, it can lock, (?unlock?) a folder, I had done that to test it out and ended up having to do a clean install, I was locked out of 10GBs of hard drive space till I formated the drive. -.-; ICACLS seems to be a more powerful dos-style permissions control.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Aug 9, 2011 11:01:10 GMT -5
Well, I finally got control of my old account back. Hotmail did some nice things to prevent total hijacking. They wiped out my address book and my inbox. I cancelled the account.
I'll be staying with Mail.com for the present: CaptainZedo@mail.com
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Post by Pilot on Aug 9, 2011 15:24:50 GMT -5
Z... remember that there are bots that scan the internet for name@wherever.net and such? A normal forum has about 50+ bots that scan it.
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