Is MSN down? (14 May 07)

[NoCoolUserName]

I have been unable to get to MSN or Hotmail for 2 days now. All other sites--The Dope, for instance--I can access fine. Is something going on there, or is it here?

[twickster]

My main email account is at MSN, and I haven't noticed anything odd.

[NBYodo]

I have been unable to get to MSN or Hotmail for 2 days now. All other sites--The Dope, for instance--I can access fine. Is something going on there, or is it here?


Works fine for me.

[Khampelf]

I've used hotmail twice this weekend, and I just checked it this monday morning, and it's fine for me.

What did you do to Microsoft?

[NoCoolUserName]

It's me then. Firefox goes to login.live.com when I type in www.msn.com. Is there something wrong with my login? Hmmm...trying IE, I can get to msn.com but when I click the "Log In" link, it can't display the page. What is wrong with me?

[NoCoolUserName]

OK, so I cleared my cache and now I can get to MSN.com and the login page for Hotmail, but when I log in, it says it can't display the page. Same behavior on IE and Firefox. From a different computer, I have no trouble, so it's something on this one. Any guesses what it could be? Thunderbird (my mail client) can't log in either.

I'm stumped.

[Mbossa]

What's the exact wording of the error message? Does it give an HTTP response code (e.g. 401 or 500)?

[NoCoolUserName]

Firefox:

Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at login.live.com.

Internet Explorer:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

No numbers. :-(

[NoCoolUserName]

Problem solved. Norton had freaked out (or gone nuts, or something) and was blocking access to all secure sites. A reboot and manual update and everything is now working properly.

Thread closed.