I turned both the Microsoft and Norton firewalls and still can't connect..Hmm.
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Tom


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Tom,
>
> If key ports is blocked then Messenger can't make an outgoing connection to port 1863 or 80
> and 443 (all TCP). As such, it sounds like your firewall is still blocking it.
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> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > Running 7.5 IM. Get message 800072efd saying that perhaps my firewall is
> > blocking the mesenger from connecting to my service. Turned off both
> > firewalls and the problem persist. Clicked on Troubleshoot and the test
> > results come back with one failure being KEY PORTS. How do I resolve this
> > problem.
> >
> > Thanks to all in advance.
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