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Jul182011
Hotmail's New "MY FRIEND'S BEEN HACKED!" Feature.
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 11:45AM 
Microsoft has recently introduced a new feature for hotmail users. Now when you receive an email that for one reason or another just does not seem right to you, you can click MARK AS then "MY FRIEND'S BEEN HACKED!". Thats right, got a suspecious link, or perhaps you 80 year old father is emailing you suggesting you check out the latest Rap Video, well if you think its a fake, report it.Microsoft does not use this as the only factor and suddently turn off their account, but it triggers them to look for other signs of hacking such as if they recently sent the same email to everyone in their address book. Then they lock the account and the next time the user tries to log in it will attempt to verify they are the real owner with a series of questions or send a recovery password to them via other methods.
I know I get these all the time from friends and clients and have to call or notify them about their account being hacked and suggest they change their password immediatly. This just helps get it done faster and easier. Its a nice step and probably something others like Gmail and Yahoo Mail will soon implement or at least should implement.
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