Cannot sign in to messenger or load hotmail sign-in webpage

Should have mentioned that if on phone line, letting the initial sign-in
page run until it stops [takes quite awhile] will cause it to popup the
sign-in screen again.
IF you wait about 30 seconds after the original signup... and click reload,
the signup process will generally finish properly [signed-in]. {look at the
bottom of the browser for the address which indicates its loading the
signed-in page...}

This is exactly like a problem they had approx. five or six months ago...

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"MEB" <meb@not here.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Not sure, but check for a blockage of Omniture/SO7.net and Akima Tech..
Both
| are apparently part of the signin process now [and WHY is beyond me...].
| Also, make sure you have installed the Security Certificate...
|
| AND, what version of JAVA are you using?
| Are you using the https signin?
|
| Messenger was updated [no support for 98], I don't use it so I can't
verify
| whether that may be a problem.
|
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| "Greg" <invalid.TakeThisOut@invalid.net> wrote in message
| news:6mmjn9Fhdn8gU1@mid.individual.net...
| | Cannot sign in to messenger or load hotmail sign-in webpage
| | login.live.com
| |
| | Getting Network timeout for hotmail and Msn instant messenger will
| | not work.
| |
| | Tried trillian. It kind of worked, but kept knocking me off every few
| | seconds.
| |
| | What is odd, it works for people that have direct connection but not
| | dial-up. My mothers work can access hotmail. They have wireless
| | access. The two dial up ISP, I tried timed out.
| |
| | I checked my host file, there is nothing that would block it.
| |
| | I tried different browsers and neither worked.
| |
| |
| | Greg
|
|

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Glad you got it worked out, and posted back with the answer to your issue.
Thanks

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"Greg" <invalid.RemoveThis@invalid.net> wrote in message
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| On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:35:27 -0400, "MEB" <meb@not here.RemoveThis@hotmail.com>
| wrote:
|
| >"Greg" <invalid.RemoveThis@invalid.net> wrote in message
| >news:6momupFhj94aU1@mid.individual.net...
| >| Update
| >|
| >| Stealth Mode Block RST IEXPLORE.EXE mail.live.com HTTP
| >| Outbound TCP
| >|
| >|
| >| Stealth Mode Block RST FIREFOX.EXE www.hotmail.com HTTP
| >| Outbound TCP
| >|
| >| Strange. When I put outpost in disable mode. This is what showed
| >| up.
| >|
| >| Running shield ups in without outpost disable mode
| >| All ports open.
| >|
| >|
| >| Running shield up in with outpost shutdown and exited
| >|
| >| Then it shows
| >| Port 314-319, 384-415,432-437 blocked
| >| Hotmail works, instant messenger works.
| >|
| >| However, it does not work on IE. Go figure.
| >| It just does not load-no error message.
| >|
| >| Running shield up in Rule wizzard
| >| Ports closed are 113, 1025, 1026, 1029, 1030
| >| The rest are stealth.
| >|
| >| I still think it has something to do with
| >| all-routers.mcast.net
| >|
| >
| > What else do you have installed in your system?
| >
| > You running a HOSTS file too???
| >
| > What AV program??
| >
| >Any special settings you applied?
| >
| >Looks like either you re-configured your firewall or it needs modified,
OR
| >you are experiencing conflicts between installed applications.
| >
| >all-routers.mcast.net should be blocked if on phoneline ; if you have it
| >locally [meaning just on your ISP] then its the function that keeps the
| >routers [theirs and yours] synchronized and sharing common information
| >{something like: 10.1.3.2 and 10.1.3.3 to all-routers.mcast.net on port
| >1985 - CISCO}, OR it can be a phone-home application, OR a security
risk...
| >[depends upon just what uses it to connect]
| >
| >See here:
|
>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.firewalls/browse_frm/thread/90
ad815bb158c585?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Drouters
..mcast.net%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D5qr5ja-pnt.l
n%2540voodoomagicbox.dyndns.org%26rnum%3D3
| >
| >http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-geeks/2002-October/002824.html
| >
| > Search on one of the search engines for all-routers.mcast.net, it is
| >discussed quite often.
| >
| > You have me puzzled, you indicated that it worked [Hotmail and
Messenger]
| >with another "hi-speed" connection, but not with yours,,, so what is your
| >connection [style and ISP]?
| >
| >DO? YOU? HAVE? A? ROUTER????
|
| Thank you for your help.
|
| Unfortunately still on dial-up. I fixed the problem. It had
| something to do with outpost firewall. I uninstalled it and the
| reinstalled the program and now everything is fine.
|
|
| I think what happen is when I restored the computer last week, the
| files of outpost did not restore correctly. Some files became
| corrupted and some how blocked login.live.com which also blocks msn
| instant messenger. Ironically at the same time, some people were
| having problems connecting to msn instant messenger.
|
| Greg