HELP: Weird hotmail problem...goes to "http://www.www.hotmail.com.org/"

[LakerGod]

I'm trying to log in to hotmail from my work and it won't connect. After a three minute wait, it will go to http://www.www.hotmail.com.org/, which then posts a your.com pop-up. Can anybody help me here?

 

[Francodman]

It's been hacked.

 

[LakerGod]

Originally posted by: Francodman
It's been hacked.

:Q

 

[Kenazo]

there are three or four threads about hotmail being down already.

 

[LakerGod]

bumpy

 

[AIWGuru]

Hotmail works fine for me. URL re-directs like that are usually a sign of spyware.
Run ad-aware!

 

[LordJezo]

A redirect like that usually is when IE can't find a page.. it cycles through .org, .edu, .whatever in an attempt to get to a page incase you misstyped it or forgot an extension.

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
A redirect like that usually is when IE can't find a page.. it cycles through .org, .edu, .whatever in an attempt to get to a page incase you misstyped it or forgot an extension.

IE does not do this. It does suggest similarly spelled webpages though but does not actually go there.

 

[rh71]

I'm thinking local spyware too.

 

[Maximus96]

doesn't work for me neither

 

[AIWGuru]

Maybe an ISP or node problem? Still works perfectly from here!

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru

Originally posted by: LordJezo
A redirect like that usually is when IE can't find a page.. it cycles through .org, .edu, .whatever in an attempt to get to a page incase you misstyped it or forgot an extension.

IE does not do this. It does suggest similarly spelled webpages though but does not actually go there.

No, it actually scrolls through like he said.

 

[AFB]

Hotmail works for me.

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: AIWGuru

Originally posted by: LordJezo
A redirect like that usually is when IE can't find a page.. it cycles through .org, .edu, .whatever in an attempt to get to a page incase you misstyped it or forgot an extension.

IE does not do this. It does suggest similarly spelled webpages though but does not actually go there.

No, it actually scrolls through like he said.

Not IE as in interenet explorer. I don't know what browser you're using but when I type in an unknown URL all I get is a "we can't find pagename" did you mean one of the following? Then it lists similar names or names on a different name which I gets from melbourneit. It most certainly doesn't go around roguely hitting all sorts of pages!
If this actually does happen to you, maybe the both of you have the same piece of spyware installed...

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Hotmail works for me.

 

[Balt]

Sounds like your hosts file could have been pwned by some spyware.

 

[neutralizer]

unhijack, use a program called "hijackthis"