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Originally posted by yourmama_20
then remove port 80 from the protected ports list

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Yeah, that's it, expose a well-known port to attack

MSN games do not use port 80: that's reserved for HTTP, the thing that lets you browse websites. My PC has port 80 nicely locked down, as does our router, and guess what? Games still work.
Maybe Messenger says the 'service is unavailable' because the service actually is unavailable!

A few more things:

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Originally posted by yourmama_20
odd though that Msn 6.0 games worked fine, with port 80 protected, but in 7.0+ they didn't

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Coincidence.

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Originally posted by markee
I did a google search and messenger uses the ports 3891 to 6901.

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That is an incomplete range of ports. In fact, there's a post on the forum that lists all the ports Messenger uses, and what for.

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Originally posted by sufcste
There doesn't seem to be anything that can be done about it, because it's not obvious what is causing it

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Precisely

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Originally posted by Cam66
thanks, i'll try opening those ports

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And wait for the attacks to happen.
And I'm not joking: an unprotected Windows machine exposed to the Internet will be compromised in, on average, 4 minutes.