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Posted by S. Pidgorny on October 30, 2006, 3:23 am
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to Internet routers - like your Internet service provider - will be able to
intercept your messages using complicated and expensive process. An
intrusion is possible, but (statistically) the intruder will not read your
Hotmail.
The reason for the request to sign in with a different e-mail may be that
someone has used the same computer before you to read their Hotmail and they
didn't sign off completely. Are you using shared computer, or public one?
Having separate password for very private sites (like your bank),
semi-private (like Hotmail), and temporary accounts at various places is a
good idea indeed.
--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
> God bless, thank you for your answer, but I am not quite sure I am
> interpreting it correctly, do you mean that once I sign in the second
> time
> the content of my e-mails are going to be all over the Web for anybody to
> read?. Sometimes when I am signing to my hotmail after the first warning a
> second signing window appears prompting me to sign with a different e-mail
> address, what is the reason for that request? I have read somewhere that
> is
> good idea to have a different password to sign to unsecure sites, am I
> correct? Gosh I do feel such an idiot, I am 51, new to this new whole
> experience in computers, but I am completely fascinated and I just want to
> learn as much as I can, for the obvious reasons security is a priority,
> any
> suggestions and advice where to begin to learn in a reasonably simple, not
> too technical way?. You just not have an idea how much I appreciate your
> help
> and answers, this time, millions of thanks.
>
> S. Pidgorny <MVP>" wrote:
>
>> What you see is a normal behaviour. Your password is transmitted over a
>> secure connection, thus the first warning. However, all subsequent
>> communication is note secured, thus the second.
>>
>> --
>> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
>> -= F1 is the key =-
>>
>> > When I try to sign in to my hotmail account a window opens that informs
>> > me
>> > that I am about to view pages over a secure connection as I click on
>> > sign
>> > in
>> > to open my account another window opens informing me this time that I
>> > am
>> > about to leave a secure internet connection it will be possible for
>> > others
>> > to
>> > view information you send, if I do not wish to continue I can not
>> > access
>> > my
>> > messages. I am extremely concerned about this problem, I have been
>> > reading
>> > and looking for reasons and solutions on windows newsgroups but found
>> > nothing, I am almost computer illiterate and I am afraid that by having
>> > tried
>> > to solve the problem without the right knowledge I have check and
>> > uncheked,
>> > enable and disable and made a right mess out of my PC . I had enabled
>> > automatic updates but I feel that this problem started after I
>> > installed
>> > SP2, I have now uninstalled SP2 but the problem has not gone away, my
>> > homepage has also been changed to MSM Homepage and when I try to change
>> > it
>> > again it always reverts back to MSMHomepage, is it possible that my PC
>> > has
>> > been hijacked? Please, please help, thanks a million.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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