Hotmail Virus: What’s Going On?
Filed under: Computers | By: Ryan
Posted on: July 27, 2007 | 19 Comments
Hundred’s of people have been desperately searching, posting and scrambling on forums accross the internet for the past few hours, trying to find an answer to their question: What’s going on with my Hotmail Inbox?
After clicking on their inbox, many hotmail users are prompted with a message saying that they have a virus. This is an occuring problem, and at this moment in time there is no way of getting around it.
What’s even more odd is that after scanning the computer for a hotmail virus, nothing can be found? Is this ‘hotmail virus’ an internal problem or a super hidden hotmail virus lurking around the computer?
Have you experienced the problem or know of a solution to this hotmail virus? Post a comment if you have experienced the irritating inbox error, if you have an idea as to how to get around the hotmail virus error… or if you just want to comment on the situation, let us know how you feel!
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It started this morning (GMT +1). Avast rang the alarm right when I accessed the inbox of my hotmail account. According to Avast I had been hit by a Trojan called VBS Malware. The solution for me was to run Avast on everything in my computer (12 files in quarantine) and then empty caches, history and get rid of all cookies on both IE and Firefox. And only use Firefox afterwards since I didn’t want to risk running IE when the Trojan seemed to be targeted for things running Visual Basic Script. I was able to access my Hotmail Inbox after that. Which took almost until lunch to figure out.
That was 12 hours ago. The last hour or so I have not been able to access my Hotmail account at all. To me this indicates that Hotmail is trying to get rid of this Malware.
I’ve been getting the “Due to an internal error your request cannot be processed” message. I’m just glad it’s not only my account! I was worried my acccount had been deleted!
it’s working now…
it was off for the last 12h
now its working!!
i think its workin now
Yep. I was able to log on again about 10 minutes ago.
I am now able to sign in at work without virus alerts. I’ll try at home later.
and it august 9th
eery time i try to sign in to hotmail all i get error http400 i have 61 messages and i cannot rad them how can i get hotmail back to normality?