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New Windows Live Mail feature - Web Messenger!

Kingbuzzo
Hi Fellas:

Has anyone noticed that they have web messenger built into the html Live Mail/Hotmail site now?

Great feature for users, not so great for us... [:@]

Anyway, is there a way to block web messenger without necessarily blocking the Live Messenger rich client?

I know you can block it all using the IM/P2P rules but how would I go about just blocking web messenger?

Thanks!


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    Did you go through Content Categories? Individual category can be blocked. For msn web messenger Astaro Security Gateway V7:
    The URL 'webmessenger.msn.com/' is classified under the following categories: Instant
  • 0 in reply to Rapt0r
    Did you go through Content Categories? Individual category can be blocked. For msn web messenger Astaro Security Gateway V7:
    The URL 'http://webmessenger.msn.com/' is classified under the following categories: Instant


    So would that be content filter categories, information & communication?

    All I see there is "instant messaging" and it is un-ticked.
  • 0 in reply to Kingbuzzo

    nope, that didn't do it for me...

    If you weren't using http proxy, it wouldn't do it for you[H]

    Creat a new network definition dns host webmessenger.msn.com and create a packet filter rule above all your access rules to reject any any webmessenger.msn.com. Between the above 2 suggestions, if the messenger is indeed coming from webmessenger.msn.com it will be blocked. If that doesn't work, create a rule for the site that you are using to access messenger and block it. Pretty trivial.
  • 0 in reply to Billybob
    I am using http proxy - that is pretty much the only thing I'm using the ASG for...

    I also tried the packet filter with no success...

    Maybe I'm doing something else wrong, or the IM/P2P default rule is overriding it or maybe it is the incorrect dns host?

    Thanks.
  • 0 in reply to Kingbuzzo
    King, Why not enable IM Control and just block MSN Messenger?

    Or are you saying that the Hotmail interface is acting as a proxy for Messenger and that no IM traffic goes trhrough the Astaro?

    Cheers - Bob
     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    Bob in his original post he asked

    Anyway, is there a way to block web messenger without necessarily blocking the Live Messenger rich client?

    Therefore I was trying to stay away from the IM control.
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