Life: Someone attempted to access my Spam Microsoft Hotmail Account

Fortunately, the account they attempted to hack is an account that I use for all non-personal uses. I don't know if anyone has ever successfully hacked my email to my knowledge, but it is likely there may have been a person that I am unaware of. I have changed my passwords multiple times when Microsoft messages that there seems to be suspicious activity.

Changed Password

Today I got that message about two hours ago. I completely forgot my password so I reset the password. It then sends a code to the Authenticator app but I have never set up this account to my Authenticator app so I cannot receive the code. I send it to a backup email. Change password. Signed in, wants to verify with Authenticator app. Changed it back to email. Which then had me change my password again. (All passwords can be repeated so I have to come up with a new password that I am likely to forget again since I rarely use this account except to get verification emails). Finally able to access email and added to my Authenticator.

Suspicious Activity

Quickly went to the account access history and I see a whole list of different countries for the last 3 weeks. The first few activity were 3-8 days apart (Russia, US, and Canada). Then it suddenly bursts into multiple attempts within the last 6 hours which appears to be about 5 attempts per hour. Each time from a different country. 

Why did it take 4 hours for the suspicious activity to be triggered? From activity history after Russia, US, and Canada, there were China, Morocco, India, Mexico, Egypt, Peru, Indonesia, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Iran, Albania, Cambodia, and Spain. All that within 6 hours. It seems it should have triggered after the first hour. Who can possibly travel that quickly or change that many VPNs or that many cloud services in such a short period time with no past history of doing so?

Summary

Looks like someone attempted to hack my email. I changed the password. I find it suspicious why it took so long for the Suspicious activity to be triggered. Fortunately, no harm appears to have been done. History says no successful logins. Even if successful, account isn't used for anything but still sucks to have to remember yet another password.

Buggish: Windows Files In Use (Locked) but Still Able to Rename thus Not In Use

There are times that I am unable to overwrite a file in a destination folder. There is nothing that I am aware of that has it open. Whether I use script or using Windows Explorer, it is unable to overwrite the file. But I can rename the file then copy the file.

If I am able to rename the file, this seems to indicate that the file is not in use. Sooooooooooo.... I have no idea what is going on. I have been able to do this for years and does not appear to have ever been resolved. This has also been impossible to search on Google because everyone is searching for resolution for a file that is actually locked or in use (although unknowingly to them).

Scammish: MtGA suspiciously manipulating matches

I run a primarily mono-red burn deck. Major weakness is enchantments. I play against a lot of enchantment decks. So much that I put in a single disenchant. I already had a dual land with white for a kicker.

Suddenly, I stopped facing any enchantment decks. I hold onto a disenchent card and never used it over 50+ games. I was losing even more often. I removed it, and instantly I played against enchantment decks.

Not just immediately, but for the next several games as if the system was queueing it up. I put my disenchant back in and no more enchantment decks.

Also suddenly, I was playing against (suspiciously different people yet seems almost exactly the same decks) were what appeared to be multi-colored shrine decks. I have to face several spirits that come out of nowhere. Also nowhere to find are my 5 burn down the house cards. Yet I always seem to manage to get my lone single strangle card each game.

I also seem to never get the End of Festivities (1 damage to all creatures) whenever I play against a small aggro create deck.

I always seem to play against black decks that have all 4 cut down (or whatever it is called).

I always seem to play against counters that have the right counter non-creature or counter creature through several rounds of single-card hands (ie they have no other cards in hand).

I always seem to play against single-color decks who happen to have 3-4 (probably 4 because I cannot survive past 3) of the largest anti-burn creatures. I just played against a player who played 3 Totalarian Terrors by round 6. Fine that he was able to cast one by round 5, then he plays 2 more right the next round. I barely have 4 mountains in a 60-card deck with 24 mountains. And he is able to pull 3 Totalarian Terrors in the same amount of time. I don't even own a single Totalarian Terror.

I always seem to play against a white deck that has the just the right amount of exile cards. No exile cards when I have no creatures, exiles up the wazoo when I have several creatures, etc. How do I know because they run out of cards. And I then suddenly get flooded with lands.

Speaking of land floods, they always seem to occur at the most critical points of the game. I am winning 20 to low single-digit. Then suddenly, 8 to 10 lands in a row. I have the red cards where I can cast 2 exile cards (which will turn up two lands) and the one where I discard one to get two cards with two treasures (ie mana) which would also turn up more lands. I would have a hand of lands. Odds? I have a 60-card deck. So my deck is 40% land yet after counting my lands with remaining cards, I have about 70% of my played cards are lands. 

The deck builder crashes all the time!! This was added because I had to restart the game several times just to look up some of the card names. You can see where I gave up above.

Sooooooo..........

Could I have been so randomly bad? maybe

Did I somehow upset lady luck? maybe

But for this simple-minded player, these odds seem terribly suspicious.