Just tried to go to hotmail and got the following screen. Now, I'm normally pretty paranoid under the best of circumstances, but this seems pretty farking fishy to me..........

I smell a big rat. I will not set up outlook as it is how the virus' are most often spread.I have had outlook open on it's own but it wouldn't do anything.
I use Yahoo and I have gotten 4 virus emails in the past 2 days. Yahoo will not let you open them as they are executable attachments. That hasn't happened before.

Carl

I think that I remember reading somewhere that Hotmail was going to switch to Microsoft Passport for authentication. Probably means that its time to switch to Yahoo mail.

Whatever that phenomenon was, everything is back working like usual now.

:dunno:

I suggest you download and scan for browser hijackers and various other bad thingies such as BHO's and mal/spyware

HijackThis
CWShredder (CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover)
Ad-Aware SE
Spybot Search & Destroy
Spyware Blaster
AVG Anti-Virus
Zone Alarm firewall

All of the above are not only free, but are far better than the majority of the programs that you have to pay for. After downloading them, make sure that you check for the latest updates BEFORE you run them for the first time. I can almost guarantee you that they'll find some bad stuff!

Anthony