Readers Respond: Why Did You Close Your Windows Live Hotmail Account?

Responses: 393

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide

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I'm certain that my account got hacked and then started to send weird messages to my contact list including myself. The message I got also contained an attachment to download. Yeah.... as if?!?
—Guest ImPissed

[Windows Live Hotmail] doesn't block spam, also hacked, doesn't send emails from my iphone randomly.
—Guest travis

My [Windows Live Hotmail] account was hacked and dodgy links sent to my contacts.
—Guest anonymous

I quit my hotmail account because I was getting backmailed on facebook, and I no longer want to use Hotmail.
—Guest glynis

One of my aliases was getting spammed hardcore with mail that 1. wouldn't go to my junk folder, and 2. was always from a different sender, so I could never block them all. When I deleted the alias, the mail was all sent directly to my main email account. Furthermore, because that account was connected to my Windows Live account, it all went to my computer and was stored there. Now I have to move everything over to a new account and delete this one. Fuck Hotmail.
—Guest jokobama

Account was hacked, people were receiving fake emails with links from my account.
—Guest guest

[Windows Live Hotmail] attaches me to too many things—I don't want an account that logs me into other stuff, like Messenger.
—Guest anilawc

My [Windows Live Hotmail] email was hacked. I closed it down. There was like donations from Oxfam of like 4 millions sterlings.
—Guest Aero

I don't like [Windows Live Hotmail] anymore because all day I was on the computer.
—Guest gelen vidal

Hotmail is 100% horrible at blocking spam. Instead of blocking the domain they only block the beginning address.
—Guest Mark

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