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Continuing to use Messenger after April 8
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O.P. RE: RE: After the Messenger/Skype Merge
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Originally posted by krypton
I don't think that your proposed procedure is sufficient, in addition to that I think that is necessary to mask the IP address with chineses proxies because you have to trick also the Microsoft servers into thinking that MSN is running in China, but it's my supposition.
Then could you manually input a Chinese proxy in the Advanced Settings of the Connections tab in Messenger's options? I just can't help but think that it's entirely possible to work around this global protocol shutdown by tapping into Chinese servers somehow.

To further what I said regarding Chinese proxies, after some research, I found this blog post which describes how to "force" Messenger into using a SOCKS proxy by adding to the hosts file, since by default [Messenger] would otherwise ignore any custom-set proxies so long as you have a working Internet (TCP) connection.

I followed the post's instructions in editing my hosts file, and I've attempted adding several different Chinese SOCKS4/5 proxies into Messenger, but so far, none of them have worked; if I try to sign in, I get a 80072efd error code, and if I try to test any working proxies, Messenger just crashes altogether. Setting an HTTP proxy inside of Internet Explorer also doesn't work.

(For the record, I originally meant to post this thread on the MSN/Windows (Live) Messenger board but accidentally posted it here, so if an admin happens to see this, please move the topic there by all means.)

This post was edited on 03-21-2013 at 11:18 PM by Chattanooga.
01-25-2013 05:10 PM
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Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 01-18-2013 at 02:01 AM
RE: After the Messenger/Skype Merge - by krypton on 01-22-2013 at 07:43 PM
RE: RE: After the Messenger/Skype Merge - by Chattanooga on 01-25-2013 at 05:10 PM
RE: After the Messenger/Skype Merge - by Chattanooga on 02-15-2013 at 04:57 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 03-11-2013 at 08:14 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 03-14-2013 at 01:36 AM
RE: RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 03-14-2013 at 07:44 AM
RE: RE: RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 03-14-2013 at 12:17 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-15-2013 at 02:47 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 03-15-2013 at 07:45 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-16-2013 at 09:37 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 03-16-2013 at 09:56 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Shellz34 on 03-21-2013 at 01:51 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-21-2013 at 05:01 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 03-21-2013 at 08:20 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 03-21-2013 at 08:31 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-21-2013 at 10:55 PM
RE: RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 03-28-2013 at 01:49 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-26-2013 at 03:52 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Spunky on 03-27-2013 at 01:07 AM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-27-2013 at 04:14 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Spunky on 03-29-2013 at 07:36 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 03-30-2013 at 08:27 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Vipoke on 04-07-2013 at 09:38 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 04-08-2013 at 03:55 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by goku262002 on 04-08-2013 at 04:52 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-08-2013 at 05:30 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Tsukimaru on 04-09-2013 at 04:49 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-09-2013 at 06:27 AM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Tsukimaru on 04-12-2013 at 08:54 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-09-2013 at 04:46 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-10-2013 at 04:26 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Menthix on 04-09-2013 at 07:45 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-10-2013 at 12:48 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-11-2013 at 04:44 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by riahc4 on 04-11-2013 at 02:19 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-11-2013 at 09:22 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-12-2013 at 03:14 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-12-2013 at 01:53 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-14-2013 at 11:05 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chancer on 04-14-2013 at 04:32 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Tsukimaru on 04-15-2013 at 10:17 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-15-2013 at 06:31 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-18-2013 at 12:01 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-18-2013 at 12:48 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-18-2013 at 05:20 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-18-2013 at 10:33 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 04-18-2013 at 10:46 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by GSAYER1 on 04-21-2013 at 06:18 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-22-2013 at 04:13 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 04-24-2013 at 01:19 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-24-2013 at 02:08 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 04-24-2013 at 02:17 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 04-25-2013 at 04:37 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 04-24-2013 at 03:28 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CocoP on 04-24-2013 at 04:47 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Benji on 04-24-2013 at 08:16 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-25-2013 at 01:04 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 04-25-2013 at 11:14 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Tabb on 04-26-2013 at 03:06 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by CookieRevised on 04-26-2013 at 03:22 AM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Tabb on 04-26-2013 at 08:22 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by ika on 04-26-2013 at 04:07 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Eksh on 04-30-2013 at 04:02 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 05-01-2013 at 01:30 AM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by priuscat on 05-01-2013 at 01:36 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 05-02-2013 at 08:36 PM
RE: RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by preguntonontrack on 06-08-2013 at 04:31 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 06-10-2013 at 08:34 PM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by Chattanooga on 06-27-2013 at 04:44 AM
RE: Continuing to use Messenger after April 8 - by 1Rax on 06-27-2013 at 06:59 PM


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