You probably have caught yourself a Trojan- Hotmail is a pretty good secondary email addy for dropping off at websites but in turn, you gotta receive the spam.. You probably opened one that was an executable, these .exe files can be hidden in what seems to be a perfectly safe email.. Sometimes from people you know because they too have been infected, this is how these things get viral.

What you will need to do is contact hotmail, they give you this choice when trying to enter a blocked account such as yours, the popup you are receiving from them is because this virus has cracked (hacked) your password and is sending tons of spam out and using your account name as a proxy..
You need to prove to hotmail that you are indeed the owner of the account -they will ask you simple questions that you decided on when you opened the account such as 'what is your mother's maiden name' etc.. Once they are convinced that the account is truly yours, they will issue a password and then you can get in and change it to what ever you want.. It's not hotmails fault, its the fault of webmail in general. Use a dedicated local email from your carrier ip, its comes with the package.. You can setup MS outlook to receive it.. Much better and much safer..

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am back in to my mail and have a new password . I wrote a strongly worded mail to hot mail . I was under the impression that with linux that these virus things were not possible .Guess i was wrong big time .Thank you for your help !!!!!! This is the best answer I have ever seen here . Bill