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O/T Microsoft -Important

Posted by Tony on Mon Jun 03, 2002 05:45:05 PM

This was in the Daily Mirror on Friday 31st May 2002

If you have a hotmail account - read this ..... Thanks are due to Jeremy Praill, a Project Manager at PreVista Ltd UK online Centre for pointing out that Microsoft may have taken liberties with your data? "Go into Hotmail. Click Options (to the right of the tab that says "Address Book"). Click Personal Profile (in the upper left corner). Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and see whether the boxes marked "Share my e-mail address" and "Share my other registration information" have been checked. Jeremy says:'Those boxes didn't exist when I signed up for Hotmail, and chances are pretty good they didn't exist when you signed up for it, either. I certainly never gave Microsoft permission to hand out my email address - or my birthday, gender or occupation. I'd rather be dipped in oil. Yet both of those boxes on my personal profile were checked. I bet they're checked on your personal profile, too.

Details are still murky, but it looks like Microsoft added those two check boxes a couple of months ago, and did itself a big favour by checking both of them for all of the Passport holders at the time. So, that explains the spam increase in my Hotmail inbox recently. What a cheek!"



If the boxes ARE ticked (mine were) untick them, then sign out and sign in again, repeat procedure to check that they are unticked bloody Microsoft, you bloody vultures, increase my spam, then offer me a premium service to get rid of them you sods

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