Qwerky
join:2006-05-24
Adanac
| anon101, thanks very much for the reply and the link. I appreciate your taking the time to find it!
The screenshots in that link are accurate--that is indeed the firewall which I am using. However, the text is sadly misleading when it says that you must allow Windows Live Messenger in both the in and out directions, for both the trusted and internet zones. That site, it would seem, is just a Microsoft shill, which tells one to allow anything Microsoft wants, because Microsoft can do no wrong. Microsoft knows what's good for you, even if it isn't.
In point of fact, one need only allow the outbound direction for the internet zone only, and Messenger will sail happily along without ever a prompt. In fact, that is what I have resorted to over the last week, in lieu of what I really want, which is a packet filter rule. It is the packet filter rule that is giving the problems as described earlier in this thread. Oh how I wish the Kerio experts had not vanished.
anaon101, please don't take the above rant personally, as it was not directed at you in any way, but rather at M$. I do appreciate your taking the time to help, and don't wish to discourage you from doing so in the future 
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Mr. Qwerky - The Lone Stranger
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