To my chagrin, I saw dozens and dozens of suspicious emails with bizarre links. I quickly took action to change my password and inform my friends (from my gmail account) of the incident, but my trust in Hotmail is finally and forever broken.
Out of all my email accounts, including Yahoo, Gmail, and Web accounts, Hotmail has always been the ugly stepchild, especially for the past 2 years. Checking my Hotmail account has become an unpleasant study in perversity. Hotmail spam is always riddled with pornographic and profane spam. No matter how many times I click "Mark as Spam", the junk keeps coming back, like a pesky bloodthirsty mosquito.
So it finally got me. After doing a Google search, I discovered that lots and lots of other people, including software experts, have been subjected to these annoying email attacks where your entire contact list is sent a series of malicious links.
I am angry at Hotmail for allowing this. They went to the trouble of changing their entire email interface to include such nonsense as the ability to social network through Hotmail (why, when I have Facebook), but couldn't take the time to create better security for their own email system.
Hotmail routinely bombards its email users with absurd ads every time you check email. Even after clicking "full view" the ads continue to display while you commit the cardinal sin of just trying to read your email in peace. I guess that was the writing on the wall.
So the love affair is over. I have no immediate plans to ever again enter the despicable Hotmail domain. Checking email shouldn't be a dangerous undertaking. It shouldn't even be all that interesting. Just a routine part of today's technological landscape, like anti-virus scanning. Hotmail has clearly trailed behind, sad considering it was once a leader. When criminals can easily access an established email account, that's just too hot for me.
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