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Old 04-23-2009, 04:38 PM
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Question New Windows Live Mail feature - Web Messenger!
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?

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Old 04-23-2009, 05:05 PM
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If you use http proxy, you can just add webmessenger.msn.com to blocked and walla problem solved.
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Old 04-23-2009, 05:08 PM
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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 'http://webmessenger.msn.com/' is classified under the following categories: Instant
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If you use http proxy, you can just add webmessenger.msn.com to blocked and walla problem solved.
nope, that didn't do it for me...

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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 '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.
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Old 04-24-2009, 03:05 AM
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nope, that didn't do it for me...
If you weren't using http proxy, it wouldn't do it for you

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.
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Old 04-24-2009, 03:43 PM
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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?

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Old 04-24-2009, 05:22 PM
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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?

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Old 04-24-2009, 06:24 PM
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Bob in his original post he asked
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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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Old 04-24-2009, 08:26 PM
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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?

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I'm not sure if it is capable of that - it might be, I haven't tested it...

Yes, I want to control Messenger via s/w policies but completely block Web Messenger somehow if possible.

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