Unable to login to MSN Messenger

Please follow these steps to resolve.

1. Start Messenger.
2. Select Tools, and then click Options.
3. Under Connection, click Advanced Settings.
4. Delete the entries under SOCKS.
5. Click OK, and then click OK again.
If you’re running Windows XP

1. On the taskbar, click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type cmd, and then click OK.
3. At the command prompt, type ipconfig/flushdns, and then press ENTER.

If you still can not login

1. Check your firewall settings:
1. Go to the MSN Web Messenger website.
2. Click Start MSN Web Messenger, and then try to sign in.

If you can sign in to MSN Web Messenger, but Windows Live Messenger still can’t access the Internet, Windows Live Messenger may be blocked by a firewall. You may need to add MSNmsgr.exe to your firewall’s allow list. See your firewall’s documentation or website for more information on how to add MSNmsgr.exe to your allow list.
2. A dial-up connection may be timing out. Wait a few minutes, and then try to sign in again.
3. If your computer is part of a corporate network, contact your network administrator to make sure that the network allows access to the Messenger service.
4. Make sure your antivirus or antispyware programs don’t conflict with Messenger.

Chrome – Google’s Web Browser

Google’s Chrome web browser is setting a new standard for security that we really are excited about here at PC Blogger. Google has incorporated the “sandbox” practice of separating the application processes from other applications such as the Operating System(OS) and user data.

This concept will make it harder for attackers to infect your PC or Mac with malicious software. If the malware that an attacker was trying to engage on your PC or Mac’s web browser was successful then it still would have to exploit the sandbox technology and then make its attack to the OS and you data. Google’s Chrome will isolate HTML rendering and JavaScript into their own class of processes which will sandbox the Chrome browser tab(s) from your OS.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7-8 has incorporated what they dub as “Protected Mode” which can reduce privileges on the attackers code and make it difficult to read, write, or alter any data. Notice we said “reduce”.

Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Opera do not offer any “sandboxing” technology to date. Mozilla has a feature called “Electrolysis” which has the sandboxing technology slated to be released in late 2010 or early 2011.

I don’t know about you but malware that installs itself and has the ability to read my files is not something I can live with. Ugh!

Please see our link to Google’s Chrome Web Browser and try it for yourself here.