>>>I have no idea what happened with the inbox.com address. On Friday they started hitting me with rejections of both inbound and outbound messages. "Your account is blocked. Reason: violation of site rules." I don't know what site rules I violated. AFAIK all I was doing was sending and receiving emails, same as always. As Emily has said from about the age of 3, it's really irritating.
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>>2 things spring to mind:
>>virusinfected/p0wned machine having the access
>>email adress / pwd combo have been transferred unencrypted and syphoned
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>>check your machines during the night with a bootable linux virus check (over here c't offers one livedisk each year with current signatures DL)
>> will take LOOOONG if all partioned data are checked with all signatures.. One reason to go for unix like partioning schemes...
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>>a cracked WLAN might have eased such things via MIM-attack so change pwd there ASAP
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>>sympathies...
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>I just received another email from inbox.com. It said my account is blocked because it has been involved in massive spamming. I sure got hacked good.
sorry to say so, but that was what I expected. Hope you did not use the same pwd elsewhere, but I'd switch all my pwd's just in case...
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