Connection problems. Is M$ listening to anybody?

[Ronnie]

I am experiencing the same connection issue as many
others.

".Net Messenger service ,possiby because of a problem
with the service or with your internet connection.Please
make sure you are connected to the internet."

I tried the suggestions of Jonathan Kay, absolutely no
help. As far as his suggestion to unistall NIS, can't see
risking my pc for messenger! I've had NIS quite a while
before this messenger update was FORCED upon me.

This problem has been going of for about 3 weeks, and I
have yet to see anything from M$ admiting a problem much
less some kind of solution.

My question is this is M$ capable of writing a program
that is secure and works from the start!

As for messenger this is the only fix I have found

Start > Run

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%
\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Ronnie,

I've been doing this for a long time, and "I can't sign in!" has been a predominant message
from the start. However, if there is a "major flaw" within the Messenger clients, it doesn't
seem to be effecting the 30+ million (not necessarily accurate as of this exact message)
people currently logged in worldwide.

The "upgraded" message clients use a new authentication scheme which makes use of SSL (the
same encryption used on the web to encrypt credit card, etc. information in transit). If for
some reason SSL is not working on your PC, a firewall application is blocking the SSL port
(which is 443 TCP for reference), or some other software (or even hardware networking device)
is blocking SSL, you'll see this problem.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Ronnie" > wrote in message
...
> I am experiencing the same connection issue as many
> others.
>
> ".Net Messenger service ,possiby because of a problem
> with the service or with your internet connection.Please
> make sure you are connected to the internet."
>
> I tried the suggestions of Jonathan Kay, absolutely no
> help. As far as his suggestion to unistall NIS, can't see
> risking my pc for messenger! I've had NIS quite a while
> before this messenger update was FORCED upon me.
>
> This problem has been going of for about 3 weeks, and I
> have yet to see anything from M$ admiting a problem much
> less some kind of solution.
>
> My question is this is M$ capable of writing a program
> that is secure and works from the start!
>
> As for messenger this is the only fix I have found
>
> Start > Run
>
> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%
> \INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
>
>
>
>

[Ronnie]

Yes thats right if it works for the majority it is not a
problem!? There is a flaw with messenger. 4.6 worked
fine. 4.7 and 5.0 does not work for everyone. As far as
SSL goes works fine on my pc I use my credit card quite
frequently on the net. By the way I tried this on my
laptop that has no firewall software installed and never
has and the same problem occurs!

Tired of being a M$ beta tester!!

>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Ronnie,
>
>I've been doing this for a long time, and "I can't sign
in!" has been a predominant message
>from the start. However, if there is a "major flaw"
within the Messenger clients, it doesn't
>seem to be effecting the 30+ million (not necessarily
accurate as of this exact message)
>people currently logged in worldwide.
>
>The "upgraded" message clients use a new authentication
scheme which makes use of SSL (the
>same encryption used on the web to encrypt credit card,
etc. information in transit). If for
>some reason SSL is not working on your PC, a firewall
application is blocking the SSL port
>(which is 443 TCP for reference), or some other software
(or even hardware networking device)
>is blocking SSL, you'll see this problem.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Windows MVP, Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"Ronnie" > wrote in message
...
>> I am experiencing the same connection issue as many
>> others.
>>
>> ".Net Messenger service ,possiby because of a problem
>> with the service or with your internet
connection.Please
>> make sure you are connected to the internet."
>>
>> I tried the suggestions of Jonathan Kay, absolutely no
>> help. As far as his suggestion to unistall NIS, can't
see
>> risking my pc for messenger! I've had NIS quite a while
>> before this messenger update was FORCED upon me.
>>
>> This problem has been going of for about 3 weeks, and I
>> have yet to see anything from M$ admiting a problem
much
>> less some kind of solution.
>>
>> My question is this is M$ capable of writing a program
>> that is secure and works from the start!
>>
>> As for messenger this is the only fix I have found
>>
>> Start > Run
>>
>> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%
>> \INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

So, the majority have their computers configured correctly! What have YOU
done to screw it up?

"Ronnie" > wrote in message
...
> Yes thats right if it works for the majority it is not a
> problem!? There is a flaw with messenger. 4.6 worked
> fine. 4.7 and 5.0 does not work for everyone. As far as
> SSL goes works fine on my pc I use my credit card quite
> frequently on the net. By the way I tried this on my
> laptop that has no firewall software installed and never
> has and the same problem occurs!
>
> Tired of being a M$ beta tester!!
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Greetings Ronnie,
> >
> >I've been doing this for a long time, and "I can't sign
> in!" has been a predominant message
> >from the start. However, if there is a "major flaw"
> within the Messenger clients, it doesn't
> >seem to be effecting the 30+ million (not necessarily
> accurate as of this exact message)
> >people currently logged in worldwide.
> >
> >The "upgraded" message clients use a new authentication
> scheme which makes use of SSL (the
> >same encryption used on the web to encrypt credit card,
> etc. information in transit). If for
> >some reason SSL is not working on your PC, a firewall
> application is blocking the SSL port
> >(which is 443 TCP for reference), or some other software
> (or even hardware networking device)
> >is blocking SSL, you'll see this problem.
> >____________________________________________
> >Jonathan Kay
> >Windows MVP, Messenger
> >Associate Expert
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> >Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >
> >"Ronnie" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> I am experiencing the same connection issue as many
> >> others.
> >>
> >> ".Net Messenger service ,possiby because of a problem
> >> with the service or with your internet
> connection.Please
> >> make sure you are connected to the internet."
> >>
> >> I tried the suggestions of Jonathan Kay, absolutely no
> >> help. As far as his suggestion to unistall NIS, can't
> see
> >> risking my pc for messenger! I've had NIS quite a while
> >> before this messenger update was FORCED upon me.
> >>
> >> This problem has been going of for about 3 weeks, and I
> >> have yet to see anything from M$ admiting a problem
> much
> >> less some kind of solution.
> >>
> >> My question is this is M$ capable of writing a program
> >> that is secure and works from the start!
> >>
> >> As for messenger this is the only fix I have found
> >>
> >> Start > Run
> >>
> >> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%
> >> \INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >