My friend’s been hacked! – A unique feature to Hotmail

[KaYaN]

Maybe you or your friend may have got spam messages from one of your friends, like ad for a product. Or maybe it’s a more involved story – like a plea for money. Whenever it happens, you must do or instruct your friend to do all three of these steps:

• Immediately change your password
• Change your security question and answer
• Verify that you are the owner of your alternate email address

To cure this problem, Hotmail team also has introduced a couple new features that helps protect your email accounts.

My Friend’s been hacked – lets you report a friend’s account as compromised.
A feature prevents you from using common, easy guess passwords.

Now you can do more. Hotmail lets you report your friend’s account as compromised. Whenever you get that spam message supposedly from your friend, you just click “My friend’s been hacked!” on the “Mark as” menu:


Once the account is marked as compromised, two things happen:

• The account can no longer be used by the spammer.
• When your friend attempts to access their account, they’re put through an account recovery flow that helps them take back control of the account.

Prevention is always better than cure

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[Bearcat]

Thanks for the heads up Kay! I have a Hotmail account so this looks like a good feature to have.

[sm1]

Thanks KaYan I use windows live but mainly for skydrive storage.

[sujay]

Wow...!!! This seems to me a real good addition to Hotmail.... I want such option for gmail tooo...

[INDRANIL]

Hmm Nice news good share Kay bro . Sujay bro you should tell them .