anzo Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Evenin all.My mates computer, which he has recently got running and onto the internet, refuses to sign into MSN Messenger (7.5). I get the old 'a firewall may be blocking your connection' box over and over again.After hours of pissing about with every security setting on his PC it will STILL not connect up, I've even tried turning his firewall off!Hes running 2005 Norton Anti-Virus, I've set the firewall to Permit All on MSN Messenger, but still no luck. The troubleshooter from mirco$oft needs, well, shooting, its shit. All the help topics suck...no help what so ever.I've gone though all the 'Test Connections' thing on MSN Tools>Options>Connection, all is fine.Any ideas?Seems to be impossible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MesaMan Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Evenin all.My mates computer, which he has recently got running and onto the internet, refuses to sign into MSN Messenger (7.5). I get the old 'a firewall may be blocking your connection' box over and over again.After hours of pissing about with every security setting on his PC it will STILL not connect up, I've even tried turning his firewall off!Hes running 2005 Norton Anti-Virus, I've set the firewall to Permit All on MSN Messenger, but still no luck. The troubleshooter from mirco$oft needs, well, shooting, its shit. All the help topics suck...no help what so ever.I've gone though all the 'Test Connections' thing on MSN Tools>Options>Connection, all is fine.Any ideas?Seems to be impossible!If the firewall is turned off - It's not the firewall! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeZee Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Norton Anti-Virus doesn't have a firewall.... are you using something like Norton Internet Security? Just turn the firewall off... see if it connects... if not, its not the firewall. Make sure that the firewall built into XP isn't being an arse aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoot Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Evenin all.My mates computer, which he has recently got running and onto the internet, refuses to sign into MSN Messenger (7.5). I get the old 'a firewall may be blocking your connection' box over and over again.After hours of pissing about with every security setting on his PC it will STILL not connect up, I've even tried turning his firewall off!Hes running 2005 Norton Anti-Virus, I've set the firewall to Permit All on MSN Messenger, but still no luck. The troubleshooter from mirco$oft needs, well, shooting, its shit. All the help topics suck...no help what so ever.I've gone though all the 'Test Connections' thing on MSN Tools>Options>Connection, all is fine.Any ideas?Seems to be impossible!The microsoft troubleshooter is made to sort out problems for windows, not problems for Norton antivirus, thats why its not helping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 I had a similar problem with 7.5 i uninstalled it then reinstalled it but it still didn't work, but i did manage to get it working by messing round with the connection options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 The microsoft troubleshooter is made to sort out problems for windows, not problems for Norton antivirus, thats why its not helping!Really? Didn't think of that one I looked though all the troubleshooter for connection problems incase it was something else OTHER then the firewall.He is running Norton Internet Security and thats what I turned off, aswell as the XP one. Still no luck with it though.Any ideas of what it might be if not the firewall?Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Could be a router and a hardware firewall. Virus/SpywareSome version of messenger you're not supposed to use?Corrupt MSN? Long shot. Has this version of MSN ever worked on this PC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesR Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 I have same problem since i went on to a wireless router. Tried AVG options, Windows FW options, and messed about with BT 1250 wireless router and not made any difference have to access msn from the other comp now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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