Can't Connect to MSN Msgr

Does MSN Messenger still work if you manually connect to the MSN service?

Which version of MSN?

Have you checked the "General" settings tab in MSN to see if Automatically Run and Sign In are both checked?

 

Disable the firewall and try, if that works then delete the msn listing ( messenger or msnmsgr.exe ) in the firewalls allowed/disalowed programs list, start MSN and re-allow it when your FW alrets you to a new program wanting net access.

Is it the latest version 7 and whats the full version number?

Delete cookies and temp internet files... sometimes a corrupt file or cookie can cause issues.

 

Which Firewall?

 

Sygate is then blocking MSN if when turned off MSN connects fine, try to manually set the permissions in the applications list for messenger in Sygates Tools > Applications menu to "Allow"


if you need the instruction manual for Sygate its found here http://smb.sygate.com/support/userguides/spf/spf55_userguide.pdf

 

Only things I can now think of are,


1. In the advanced application settings ( see guide link in earlier post ) add MSNs port/s to the list.

Port to add would be 1863 as its the logon one.

but here are all of them that MSN Mess uses
1863 Sign-in
6891-6900 Direct Connect, File Transfer
1503 Application Sharing
6901 VOIP
5004-65535 Video/Webcam
1838 Game Audio
5004-65535 Audio Chat

2. Loathe to suggest this but maybe use a different Firewall, Outpost or ZoneAlarm