Win Messenger 4.7 Signing In/Out on its own



My Windows Messenger v4.7 is signing in and out all on its own. I will be
doing something like working on a doc in MS Word and Messenger will
automatically sign off (I can see this by the icon change in the
notification area). A little while later, it will automatically sign back
in. And, at times when its signed in and I attempt to change my status to
busy or something, it will say it can't and sign me off.

When its signed in, I am able to chat, voice or video conference with
people. However, I have had it sign me off in the middle of
chat/voice/video sessions.

My brother claims that several times he has tried to initiate a chat session
with me when he's noticed me signed in and as soon as he does, his Messenger
will update to inform him that I have signed off. He thinks I'm avoiding
him... I'm not.

I am using WinXP Pro SP2, Win Messenger 4.7.3001, WinXP firewall enabled,
WinXP auto updates enabled, Linksys router BEFSX41 installed w/ latest
firmware, latest version of eTrust EZAntivirus.

Is anybody having similar problems? Can anybody offer some assistance with
this or direct me somewhere?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Brian


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