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Question

Someone else's MSNaccount opened on my ipad

Mar 20, 2015 7:31PM PDT

Hi everyone, the other evening we were having connectivity issues and our pages were taking forever to load. All of a sudden a strange MSN account popped up that was signed into for I saw the little AVI picture of the person and then it was gone, probably because I had hit load MSN several times. It didn't show in our history. Does anyone know how that could have happened?
Thanks for your help!!

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I guess this could be a software bug.
Mar 21, 2015 12:40AM PDT

Since Microsoft doesn't have the best of code what if they fetched the wrong AVI picture? It happens. Folk today are sometimes missing a big issue today. I'll try to convey it here. Not only are their hackers but companies with buggy code. Microsoft has earned their 6 legs, wings and antennae.
Bob

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;)
Mar 21, 2015 5:51AM PDT

"Microsoft has earned their 6 legs, wings and antennae."

Absolutely Wink

cheers

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Strange MSN account popped up on ipad
Mar 21, 2015 6:24AM PDT

Hi Pepe7,
Have you heard of anything like this happening before?

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Yes, I have
Mar 22, 2015 2:38AM PDT

And both times it involved either a glitch or simple error by the end user.

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Strange MSN account on IPad
Mar 21, 2015 6:14AM PDT

Hi Bob, so you have seen this before? I am really concerned that someon hacked our internet. What strange thing have you seen?

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Tipping my hat
Mar 21, 2015 6:40AM PDT

Grey hair, been around since before DOS, spotted far too many odd Microsoft bugs over the years. If it wasn't MSN or MSFT I would have thought it was something else but today you find many users freak over any glitch. Not much you can offer them at times other than decaf.
Bob

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MSN glitch
Mar 21, 2015 8:41AM PDT

A bug is better than thinking my husband signed into another woman's MSN account....

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My guess is...
Mar 22, 2015 2:41AM PDT

...as a fellow 'husband', I don't think he would have much interest in signing into another woman's email account. One wife's email account most certainly will suffice Wink

cheers

(p.s. if you are really paranoid about any errors like this, backup your data, then wipe the device/re-configure from scratch like a 'new' iPad.)