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The Snow Box 8015D000
- suspicious activity -
At the moment, I'm just casually poking around seeing what I can do with this puppy. Mostly, I'm cruising YouTube and playing a demo game of 'Bejewelled'. It's a nice mindless game but it helps me learn how to use the controller.
I briefly logged into Diablo 3 - the game that was stuck in the box when I found it. I thought I had it set to play locally but I saw other gamers - so it must have dropped me in a game somewhere. I immediately logged off because I didn't want to deal with other players. I may play the game solo but I don't want to join teams and play with 14 year olds.
I notice a lot of the Youtube videos for the XBox sound like teenage males. I'm old enough to be your grandmother, kid.
To get to the meat of the story, I log in and discover I can't log into XBox Live. I get the error code
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This profile cannot be downloaded right now.
Status Code 8015D000
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To quote from the MS web site:
If Microsoft notices unusual activity on your Outlook.com or Hotmail.com account, we may temporarily block it for your protection.
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Supposedly, this means that there's been suspicious activity on my account and they want me to log in via my email account.
Gee, I've had the account for two weeks, tops?
I go to my computer and jump through hoops to log in because... well, I can't. I finally get the codes from my cellphone (they only send text messages which my land line doesn't do) get confirmation from my other email account, log in and change the password, look around for any suspicious activity. Nope. Nothing. Some promotions from XBox, an email from another one of my accounts, nothing bought.
I still tightened up my security and blocked most things from my account.
Not sure what's going on here. A security glitch? Is the console serial number still attached to somebody else? I did wipe the drive so it should be okay but maybe they're still tracking by the console number. The console suddenly stop playing COD (there was a bunch of saved games for Call of Duty on the drive), all the accounts were deleted and a new one created. That might have twigged some algorithm.
So, trying out streaming movies is still on my bucket list. Maybe sometime this weekend I'll rent 'Tank Girl'. I heard was a movie so bad it was good so why not?
I'll do an 'Iron Man' marathon some other weekend.
-m
At the moment, I'm just casually poking around seeing what I can do with this puppy. Mostly, I'm cruising YouTube and playing a demo game of 'Bejewelled'. It's a nice mindless game but it helps me learn how to use the controller.
I briefly logged into Diablo 3 - the game that was stuck in the box when I found it. I thought I had it set to play locally but I saw other gamers - so it must have dropped me in a game somewhere. I immediately logged off because I didn't want to deal with other players. I may play the game solo but I don't want to join teams and play with 14 year olds.
I notice a lot of the Youtube videos for the XBox sound like teenage males. I'm old enough to be your grandmother, kid.
To get to the meat of the story, I log in and discover I can't log into XBox Live. I get the error code
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This profile cannot be downloaded right now.
Status Code 8015D000
------
To quote from the MS web site:
If Microsoft notices unusual activity on your Outlook.com or Hotmail.com account, we may temporarily block it for your protection.
-----
Supposedly, this means that there's been suspicious activity on my account and they want me to log in via my email account.
Gee, I've had the account for two weeks, tops?
I go to my computer and jump through hoops to log in because... well, I can't. I finally get the codes from my cellphone (they only send text messages which my land line doesn't do) get confirmation from my other email account, log in and change the password, look around for any suspicious activity. Nope. Nothing. Some promotions from XBox, an email from another one of my accounts, nothing bought.
I still tightened up my security and blocked most things from my account.
Not sure what's going on here. A security glitch? Is the console serial number still attached to somebody else? I did wipe the drive so it should be okay but maybe they're still tracking by the console number. The console suddenly stop playing COD (there was a bunch of saved games for Call of Duty on the drive), all the accounts were deleted and a new one created. That might have twigged some algorithm.
So, trying out streaming movies is still on my bucket list. Maybe sometime this weekend I'll rent 'Tank Girl'. I heard was a movie so bad it was good so why not?
I'll do an 'Iron Man' marathon some other weekend.
-m
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