MSN Locking Up

[tomdelonge]

Firstly, I do not know if this is the right board but I looked for a while and could find nothing suitible.

The problem I am having is with msn 7.5 build 0311. A while ago when a certain person sent me a message or if I was to send a message to them, msn would lock up for a few seconds. Now it seems to have passed onto everyone I talk to on msn and it is lasting alot longer and taking up all my processor resources. I have done a reinstallation and system restore back to the date I first installed windows (1 year ago). It still does it. I was wondering if anyone knows how I can solve this problem. I doubt it is my hardware but it could be. Please can anyone help?

AMD 64

Biostar Motherboard

1024mb DDR 400mhz

160gb IDE Hard Drive

GeForce FX 5700

P.S It only does this with MSN, no other software.

Edited November 4, 2005 by tomdelonge

[gamehead200]

Have you done a virus scan? My bet is its some kind of MSN worm...

[tomdelonge]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have NIS and it scans twice weekly on mondays and fridays. I have just done another scan and it has found nothing. Is there a tool to find msn worms?

[tomdelonge]

Ok I tried the virus again and google "remove msn worms" it came up with this site.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...hreadid=1658987

I did everything on it and the problem is still there. I now think it is just this version of msn and I will wait for a new one

[Tarun]

Have you considered posting a HijackThis log here?

[DigeratiPrime]

i was helping someone with msn problems yesterday, it appears msn was last updated version 9.00.0010.1601 (October 22, 2003) over two years ago. Microsoft doesnt seem to care about msn, and will be replacing it with 'Live' versions early next year.

I suggest you ditch msn, use firefox for web browsing and use the webmail extension to read your msn mail.

http://webmail.mozdev.org/

Edited November 7, 2005 by DigeratiPrime

[Zxian]

@Digerati - I think he's talking about MSN Messenger... not MSN Explorer.

[DigeratiPrime]

aha

MSN Messenger for Windows 7.5.0311

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/MSN_M...ows/942840565/1

that makes more sense. excuse me

[Jeremy]

Nice going, Dig.

Yeah, that's the 2nd main reason I don't use MSN. First is all the GUI-bloat. Use Trillian. Supports many protocols including MSN, but without the crap. Cheers. By the way, common sense should indicate to you, when some glitch/error/lockup happens on one programs and gradually starts happening to everything else over time that a virus has been busy infecting your EXEs and DLLs. Also, don't use Norton. It sucks. My future relative-in-laws had Norton on their PC with the auto-update, auto-scan, real-time monitoring, etc... I uninstalled that, installed Kaspersky... long and behold 330 viruses!? Where was Norton during the computer's time of need? Obviously wallowing in a puddle of its own garbage code. Kaspersky may not be the fastest scanner, but it sure does it's job bloody well.