i know this sounds totally dumb, but ive tried everything i can think of. i'm at my parents place and msn messenger wont work worth a crap on their pc. problem is it won't connect supposedly for blocked ports. i tried the silly diagnose option which bitches about host file (which it cant fix) and blocked ports. on win XP btw.
thing is there is no router here - just right into a cable modem. i've tried disabling all firewalls, antivirus, etc. hell i even removed the anti-virus. everything else appears to work just fine. also reset the xp netcode (netsh command) and no luck. no spyware/malware, etc. no viruses or other crap, its actually a very clean computer.
so for some reason xp is blocking the correct ports? how do i fix this? i'm a tool with networking and this is about as far as i can go on my own.
thanks for any help.
thing is there is no router here - just right into a cable modem. i've tried disabling all firewalls, antivirus, etc. hell i even removed the anti-virus. everything else appears to work just fine. also reset the xp netcode (netsh command) and no luck. no spyware/malware, etc. no viruses or other crap, its actually a very clean computer.
so for some reason xp is blocking the correct ports? how do i fix this? i'm a tool with networking and this is about as far as i can go on my own.
thanks for any help.