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Posted by: Pedja Simovic May 31 2009, 01:42 PM

Hey guys and girls

I figured some of you might have solution for this problem. I've been using MSN for years now and everything worked fine until this new version of Live Messenger came out. All of a sudden, I can't connect to it at all and I am getting some message regarding Firewall or something that just doesnt add up.

I have disabled firewall in Windows and switched of anti virus monitoring (AVG), and still no use !

Any idea what I can do ?

I am using that windows messenger that comes originally with windows but I cant send nor receive files with that one since everybody is using latest version of MSN!


Every advice is appreciated

Thanks a lot !

Pedja

Posted by: Tolek May 31 2009, 01:58 PM

I´d reinstall the old version. I didn´t install the newest one because I´ve testes its interface which isn´t really structured, imo.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic May 31 2009, 02:02 PM

I have tried that and again same problems...
What is the old version of MSN exactly ? There were so many different ones, 7.0 8.0 8.1 etc... ?

Posted by: Muris Varajic May 31 2009, 02:26 PM

Did you upgrade Firefox by any chance?

Posted by: Pedja Simovic May 31 2009, 02:38 PM

I think so Muris. I get always message when it requires upgrade so I just go ahead and do it

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic May 31 2009, 04:43 PM

I use 8.1 since version 9 is just not what I got used to, and I have problems with it too. When I log on it says something like: "MS communication platfrom cannot connect, and need to shut down sorry for inconvenience". No need to say that I've searched the whole web for a solution, and there isn't any..

Posted by: Emir Hot May 31 2009, 05:10 PM

take the exact message that you get from MSN and google it. I am sure people reported it before. I fixed many problems like that.

Posted by: Tolek Jun 1 2009, 12:19 PM

I have 8.5. And I´m just trying to log in and it doesn´t work.

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jun 1 2009, 12:44 PM

Yeah, some applications do it in a hard way.
Anyhow, once I upgraded Mozilla as well and couldn't have it running,
even with all firewalls off.
Now, problem with some antiviruses is that they are not 100% off even when they ARE off.
They firewalls keep exe. file from older version of application (MSN, Mozilla or whatever)
as a trusted application.
I think you have to check all your firewalls (windows one and from antivirus as well)
and to replace old MSN exe. with new one, hope it'll work.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Jun 1 2009, 12:47 PM

Thanks guys, I will try it all out, hopefully it will work out in the end !