I'm really wondering how stupid people really are. Long ago I posted a story entitled How to Kill MSN Messanger, all about how to stop messanger from loading on boot, and if you run outlook express, or IE, or pretty much anything. Somehow some people started posting to get passwords for hotmail accounts. And them more, and more and more and more. I get one or two every few days, and I just wonder if anyone reads anymore.
The last one, from "Lord BlueKnight" says "i dont know if this is a hoax or not". Erhm.... where is the hoax? The story clearly states "... how to prevent it from loading automatically". Not completely clear maybe, but they obviously didn't follow the link.
*sigh*
I wonder if there are a bunch of @msn, @hotmail and @aol peole just sitting waiting anxiously for someone to send them hotmail email addresses.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses...?
Actually if I remember rightly there was a way to get a new password issued for any account by sending the appropriate details for your account but munging a http get parameter so you get sent a new password for someone elses account. It was publicised a long time ago on bugtraq - but it was fixed within a few hours by MS.
Still not sure how they can be stupid enough to think that removing msn is the same as breaking into hotmail/passport - but I guess that's where the idea that it was possible came from.
Arc pointed this out to me when they were initially posting... it almost looks like it is automated. Probably tripped off by keywords.
Almost all of these have the same format, lack of details, etc.
what is u'r adress? do u have a messanger?