what addtinal port used in WLM14

Hi,

I have company laptop installed Mcafee firewall and antivirus. I can use
WLM8.5 in the past without any problem. However, after mandatory upgraded to
WLM14, WLM always stop responding after a while. The reason could be some
ports are blocked in the firewall. Does anyone know which
additional/different ports are used by WLM14 comparing to WLM8.5?

Thanks

Greetings WU,

The ports are identical. Messenger is designed to operate in environments with everything
blocked other than port 80 (http) and 443 (https). So, I really doubt this is the problem.

It could literally be anything I'm afraid, everything from other applications trying to use
Messenger to hooked windows. You could dump the Messenger process when it freezes up to
analyze the crash dump, but as we don't have debug symbols for Messenger, it isn't always
that useful.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"WU" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I have company laptop installed Mcafee firewall and antivirus. I can use WLM8.5 in the past
> without any problem. However, after mandatory upgraded to WLM14, WLM always stop responding
> after a while. The reason could be some ports are blocked in the firewall. Does anyone know
> which additional/different ports are used by WLM14 comparing to WLM8.5?
>
> Thanks

Hi, Jonathan:

I think something changed in WLM14, I put another harddisk into my laptop
and installed everything same except Macfee Antivitus and firewall. WLM14
works fine.

Wu

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Greetings WU,
>
> The ports are identical. Messenger is designed to operate in environments
> with everything blocked other than port 80 (http) and 443 (https). So, I
> really doubt this is the problem.
>
> It could literally be anything I'm afraid, everything from other
> applications trying to use Messenger to hooked windows. You could dump
> the Messenger process when it freezes up to analyze the crash dump, but as
> we don't have debug symbols for Messenger, it isn't always that useful.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
> or citation
> --
>
>
> "WU" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have company laptop installed Mcafee firewall and antivirus. I can use
>> WLM8.5 in the past without any problem. However, after mandatory upgraded
>> to WLM14, WLM always stop responding after a while. The reason could be
>> some ports are blocked in the firewall. Does anyone know which
>> additional/different ports are used by WLM14 comparing to WLM8.5?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>

Hi Wu,

Third-party firewall software like McAfee is well known for breaking Messenger.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--

"wu" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi, Jonathan:
>
> I think something changed in WLM14, I put another harddisk into my laptop and installed
> everything same except Macfee Antivitus and firewall. WLM14 works fine.
>
> Wu
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Greetings WU,
>>
>> The ports are identical. Messenger is designed to operate in environments with everything
>> blocked other than port 80 (http) and 443 (https). So, I really doubt this is the
>> problem.
>>
>> It could literally be anything I'm afraid, everything from other applications trying to
>> use Messenger to hooked windows. You could dump the Messenger process when it freezes up
>> to analyze the crash dump, but as we don't have debug symbols for Messenger, it isn't
>> always that useful.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2010 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>> "WU" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have company laptop installed Mcafee firewall and antivirus. I can use WLM8.5 in the
>>> past without any problem. However, after mandatory upgraded to WLM14, WLM always stop
>>> responding after a while. The reason could be some ports are blocked in the firewall.
>>> Does anyone know which additional/different ports are used by WLM14 comparing to WLM8.5?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>