Msn Zone Games - authentication errors

[Guest]

To whom it may concern. After many hours of searching help and support sites and e-mailing information over and over again, I found that the problem went away when I disabled both McAfee security and McAfee firewall. Wish MNS, Dell, IE, Microsoft, or my ISP had told me that upront.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Bill,

I wish you had seen my support page, it would have saved you time..
Step 4 lists firewalls as playing a major part with Zone access issues.
Although this might be too late to help you, hopefully this thread will
help others. Thanks for posting your findings to the newsgroups Bill!

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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| To whom it may concern. After many hours of searching help and support sites and e-mailing information over and over again, I
found that the problem went away when I disabled both McAfee security and McAfee firewall. Wish MNS, Dell, IE, Microsoft, or my ISP
had told me that upront.

 

[Guest]

How did you disable them. I went through the control panel and changed the setting to stop, but I am still having this problem. I recall yesterday, that McAfee made some updates that were automatically installed, and right after then the problem did start. I never downloaded the updates to Windows. Someone help!!!!!!!

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Gap,

There are 3 ways to disable a firewall:

1. Right click it's systray icon and select Exit or Disable;
2. Go into Admin Tools / Services and STOP it's service;
3. Turn on XP's port firewall and uninstall the application firewall
(if the above works, reinstalling the firewall fixes many issues).

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

| How did you disable them. I went through the control panel and changed the setting to stop, but I am still having this
problem. I recall yesterday, that McAfee made some updates that were automatically installed, and right after then the problem did
start. I never downloaded the updates to Windows. Someone help!!!!!!!