Comments on: Gmail Lockdown in Sector 4! http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian D. Hill http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-13780 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:15:48 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-13780 This just happened to me because I was forced to relay all of my web hosts email (Because they keep making demands I cut my disk space and I don’t even use too much) through my gmail because my web host I paid good money for is on the move attacking, lying, and trying to suspend my account in every legal fashion they can execute. My web host arvixe is after me and caused me to lo0se my google account as well.

]]> By: Patrick http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-1347 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:45:17 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-1347 Well, my Gmail account was locked down yesterday, no explanation, and again this morning. This is ridiculous, they give you some arbitrary error for what you are locked out of your account but they do NOT tell you what it is that is causing the problem, the “Lockdown in Sector 4!” could be 100 different things. I don’t spam, don’t send anyone that I don’t know anything, and all of it’s nice emails, I use their Gmail Notifier, and use Gmail from my cell phone. I am just an average user, using my Gmail, have been for nearly 2 years now, and all of a sudden this has happened twice in 24 hours. If Gmail doesn’t tell me what is going on, just the stupid error, then I’ll find an email service that is reliable, tells you what is going on with your account.

Patrick

]]> By: Jamie http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-1021 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:48:35 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-1021 Just be glad that GMail does this for you. I had a friend whose Hotmail account was hacked, and all sorts of unusual activity started coming out from it. But when we contacted Microsoft to try to get it resolved, and they didn’t do anything; they just let the hacker do what he wished with the account and wouldn’t shut it down until the FBI got involved and took it over themselves.

Personally, I’ll take a 24 hour GMail outage over going through that hell again any day. The security of GMail is incredible, and the comfort that that brings is priceless now.

]]> By: Oesten http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-721 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:05:03 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-721 The same thing happened to me for a solid day. No explanation, no non-automated response. Just a whole lot of biting fingernails – particularly because my backup (on thunderbird) got corrupted the day before, and I was trying to create a new backup. I’m done with gmail.

]]> By: Brian Sawyer http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-76 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:00:53 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-76 My account was restored as mysteriously as it was locked down. I never did figure out the source of the problem, and it hasn’t happened again.

Good luck.

]]> By: Wim Moodak http://briansawyer.net/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-75 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:56:33 +0000 http://briansawyer.wordpress.com/2006/04/25/gmail-lockdown-in-sector-4/#comment-75 The same thing just happened to me, also when iTunes opened. Did you ever find out if iTunes was the cause of it all?

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