MSN messenger games & activities and Norton Internet security

[Anon]

Hi,

I know that this issue I am having is caused my Nortons, but I haven't been
able to find a solution on Symantec's website, so I am hoping that someone
here may have experienced it and knows how to get around it.

I have MSN messenger 7.5 (And NIS 2006)

When ever I click the games or activities tabs on a chat I get a message
says "contacting service". The menu can never retrieve the games or online
activities from MSN. If I switch off NIS, and restart MSN, I can see
retrieve the various games or online activities. I have changed NIS rules
to allow all connections for MSN messenger (even lowered the default
firewall settings) This still doesn't resolve the issue.

I have been experiencing this problem since NIS 03 (upgrade every year) and
MSN messenger 6 through to 7.5 (and including the beta for WLM 8)

Does anyone have any suggestions ?


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[Guest]

Hi,

Did you manage to solve this problem? I'm having the same trouble and cannot
find a solution elsewhere.

Thanks,
Ian

 

[Anon]

No.. unfortunately.. no one has responded..

Hi,

Did you manage to solve this problem? I'm having the same trouble and
cannot
find a solution elsewhere.

Thanks,
Ian

 

[Ahab101]

Here is the solution:

1. Go to "Options \ Norton Internet Security"
2. Under "Firewall" look for "HTTP port list"
3. From the list REMOVE port "80"
4. Confirm

And there you go!

 

[Anon]

Thank you sooooooooo much...

I have had 2 different Symantec techs looking at this, and they could not
get me an answer...