Re: Windows Messenger



Saxman, having carefully considered all the angles, harangued us with the following:
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I signed up for another hotmail account and it still did exactly the same. Let me in once and blocked me out when I re-launched Windows Messenger.

I would advise using 'Windows Live Messenger' rather than Windows Messenger. Microsoft themselves recommend that course of action and actually stopped further development of 'Windows Messenger' a while back in favour of 'Live Messenger'. There are many people who consider 'Windows Messenger' to be a security risk.

You can download 'Live Messenger from here:

http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch/en-GB/index.html?thisTour=

It looks very, very similar to WM but it's a totally different program.

If you go with 'Windows Live Messenger' you should probably disable 'Windows Messenger'. See here:

http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm:

HTH

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