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You can try bypassing a proxy server that was set in the MSN Messenger settings by letting MSN Messenger make a direct connection: click the Tools menu and choose Options... In the list to the left choose Connection. Click the Advanced Settings... button and untick all the checkboxes except the one labeled TCP. Restart MSN Messenger and see if you can connect this time.
there was no checkbox and the only thing written, in one of the the white boxes, was "1080"