MSN messenger and AIM screwes

[Epipheny]

Hi guys, having a very odd problem. Recently Trillian couldn't connect to either MSN or AIM, and neither could the service's own stand-alone messengers. Thought it might be a firewall problem as I am behind a router on a cable broadband connection. However my housemate can connect to MSN fine behind the same router.

Have tried doing netstats to see what servers his MSN is connecting to, but that didnt work. Anyone know of the problem and solution?

Thanks,

Simon

 

[tjaisv]

Did you make sure that the ports those programs use are set up to be forwarded to your computer too? I know on my broadband router (Netgear MR814) i have to specify which computers i want the router ports to open up to.

 

[Slugbait]

If you're using Norton anti-virus, you'll need to disable the option for IM...for some reason, Norton doesn't protect as it should, it instead blocks. There's supposed to be a "fix" with their latest signatures, but that hasn't been confirmed as far as I know...

 

[RemyCanad]

A bit of information you might find helpful. MSN has cut off total access to it's service from the older versions of messanger and from Trillian. (Although there is now a patched version you can download.)

You probably already know this but I thought I would let you know just incase you didn't.