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MSN and firewalls...

Hi all..

Ive been using MSN Live messenger for a while now and tonight its just decided to not like my firewall. It just says its blocked. Now, my brother is on the same connection but a different computer and his works fine. I haven;t changed anything at all and now it doesnt work :(

Anyone got suggestions?

SMterminator
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I take it this is a software firewall, correct?

If so, I would look in the firewall settings about 'currently blocked' programs and such, and remove it.

If this is a hardware firewall, I would recommend just resetting it.

'Stein
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yeah i agree with stein on that check in your sttings in your firewall but some firewalls are not easy to configure like nortons and maybe it is wise to use a firewall what is easy to use like mcaffees or zonealarm personal firewall as zonealarm is free to download and i must admit that i did used firefox internet explorer but found out that is was spyware as a adaware program i had found spyware on firefox so now im useing explorer 7 and it is fast and makes it alot saver secure than explorer 6 hope this invo helps you out mate take care and all the best and good look with your firewalls :-)

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