my hotmail has been hijacked by
It goes to this page when I try to sign in.
www.dianxin.cn/index_yunnan.html?key=mail.live.com

Both on chrome and firefox.
WTF?

Looks like malware

Same problem here. It works if you are using a proxy. Maybe it's being blocked for the moment.

I would suspect it was an DNS problem. Try manually changing your DNS to Google's 8.8.8.8, either case, hotmail looks like its working fine for me now.

No, it's not malware. I also had problems, not only wih Hotmail but also MSN dot com, using Firefox and IE. Just minutes ago (around 15:00) I am able to access Hotmail & MSN again. But MSN dot com has completely changed it's main page format with some items noted as "tech difficulties". So, I think it's MSN's poor planning that's screwing up while trying to update their sh*t.

No problem here. I tried it both with and without VPN.

I did have that problem once a few years back and it was a virus that did redirects. It wasn't caught by the virus scanner. I discovered it by doing a Google search about the page to which I was redirected.

That's not a virus, or a hijacked web page. It's just a DNS problem from China Telecom. In Chinese it says the web page does not exist, and instead of giving the normal error message it redirects you to their spam page.

I get the same page if I enter a web page that doesn't actually exist.

As mentioned by @tonyaod & @ouyang - I also use google's DNS and have no hotmail connection probs. For info about google's DNS - google it. It's reliable and international (until china telecom figures out we're using it and disables or redirects that traffic to their DNS servers - but that would probably slam their servers and crash them - at which time we can rotate to other free DNS servers - caveat emptor).

Point!
My router is configured with two alternate DNS servers which is probably why I'm not having a problem.

On a side note, we started getting to Facebook a few weeks back WITHOUT using the VPN. That hole seems to have been plugged now. Too bad!

go to cn.msn.com then to hotmail.it will direct u to signing in.
i dont think its blocked, it may be some technical problem inside hotmail itself.
I went to internet cafe and i can enter by typing hotmail.com.
but when i was back to my hotel,i cant open it with the hotel network