Why does Google need my username and password to get my email? Why not use a cookie or something? If it is indeed from Google getting my email for my linked email address, why didn't Microsoft block the IP addresses Google used before this one? If it is the same address Google used before, why is Microsoft suddenly blocking it? Should I be worried? Could this actually be a Google employee and not an automated script, etc.? Worse, could it be someone pretending to be Google? Is there another reason Microsoft blocked this address, besides it being a 'new' address?
I think this is Google trying to get my MSN email to show it in my linked Gmail account. This is backed up by a couple other Google search results for the IP range 209.85.x.x. When I traced the problem back, I found out, using, that the IP address, 209.85.212.146, is currently, when I'm asking this question, at Beacon, New York, and that it is allocated to Google. I received this notification as a text from a number that has texted me before about Microsoft Live-related stuff, then as an email from less than a minute later, so I can be reasonably sure this comes directly from Microsoft. I just received a notification from Microsoft that my Microsoft account has been blocked because it's been accessed by an IP address that's never accessed it before.
