>>>>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
>>>
>>>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...
>>>
>>>a cracked WLAN might have eased such things via MIM-attack so change pwd there ASAP
>>>
>>>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.
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>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...

It takes a lot for me to change my stubborn ways. I have used the same password forever because it is easy for me to remember. Unfortunately this has been a harsh wake-up call so new passwords are forthcoming.

Less than 5 months to go until the World Cup. How do you like Germany's chances?

(Eureka, there's my new password -- worldcup. LOL).