Hotmail “vacation response” hack still lives

An hour ago I have announced all en1813.com users that the game is alive again. :-)

As spanish internet users are in love with Hotmail accounts, I could see that the old Hotmail “vacation response” hack still lives. In 2007 and again in 2008, Hotmail users reported something that they believed that is a big hole in Hotmail security as many spammers took control of the “vacation reply”.

This means that your infected Hotmail account is sending a vacation response even if you did not set it up! I received from en1813.com players lots of responses like this one:


Heya, how are you doing recently ?
I would like to introduce you a very good company which I knew. Their company homepage is www.et-union.com . They can offer you all kinds of electronical products which you need, suc as motorcycles, laptops, mobile phones, digial cameras, TV LCD,xbox, ps3, gps, MP3/4, etc. Please take some time to have a look at it, there must be something you ‘d like to purchase.
Their contact email: et_union@188.com
MSN: et-union@hotmail.com

Searching the internet for an information about how Hotmail solve it, I found that sugefa.com and ele-moto.com were reported as spam domains (via SpamHuntress).

As far as I can imagine, there is not a problem with 2 spam websites. The problem is with Hotmail. Am I wrong?

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One Response to “Hotmail “vacation response” hack still lives”

  1. eudermann  on February 3rd, 2010

    haaaaaaaa jugar

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