Re: Latest Messenger broken ??

> Greetings Stephen,
>
> The XP Firewall can't block Messenger as it can only block incoming
connections; not outgoing
> as Messenger uses to connect.
>
> Regardless, what's required is port 80 or 1863 and 443 TCP.

Okay I got to the bottom of this after goig round Saturday and examining the
PC.

They are using Kaspersky for anti-virus and anti-hacker (so firewall).
I found in Kaspersky firewall, that iun its permitted software, it had 2
versions of Messenger registered, one of which was greyed out. I suspect
that the greyed out version was the previous version of Messenger, no longer
installed and the non-greyed out version was for Messenger 7.5. So I think
Kaspersky was confused.

As soon as I deleted the greyed out entry, everything worked.

Stephen Howe


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