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pastafreak | 22:33 Thu 29th Dec 2011 | Technology
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This morning I went straight to my Hotmail page-I almost never close it.
I found a 'please sign in' message-which I attepted 3 or 4 times....each time getting the message that I'd put in the wrong password. I know I was putting in the correct password,capslock was not on,etc.
I then took the option to reset my password,and on doing so was taken to my Windows Live account overview...from there I clicked on 'Hotmail'...and got this -

"this is probably not the site you are looking for!

you attempted to reach .by000w.bay 000.mail.live.com " (my email account) "but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as a248.e.akamai.net.
This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious."

it then goes on to say that an attacker on my network may be trying to get me to visit a fake version of my email address.
I did a scan but no threats have been found.....should I worry?

After finding this-I then opened another tab,and got into my Hotmail account straightaway.
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If you have Malwarebytes the do a full scan and also boot time scan to see if there is any malware present. It appears you may have been a victim of a drive by infection .What antivirus are you using?
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I have AVG Free,Malwarebyte anti-malware,and Spybot-search and destroy
I ran AVG after this happened.

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