Cannot Sign in to Yahoo Messenger 8.1.0.249

[sheldondsouza]

Hi for the past 2 days, i noticed that i was unable to sign into yahoo messenger. Hotmail and Gmail works fine. I can sign in my yahoo mail with no problems. I uninstalled yahoo messenger, delete temp files and cookies and then cleaned the registry and searched for any yahoo folder remnants and deleted them too.

But still no luck! The message i get is "there was a problem signing in to Yahoo Messenger Please try again later" If i click on the sign in help im directed to a page to change my password. I cannot change it however as i keep getting a message that the information does not match my account information.

I have kaspersky security and i disabled it completely so there is no firewall interference and windows firewall is disabled from the beginning.

Anyways in yahoo messenger,there is a log folder and this is what it had in one of the log file.

2007/05/18 16:12:41.312[THRD:3556] [CLT] Info - ********** Log Started **********
2007/05/18 16:13:53.828[THRD:3360] [FT60] Error - HttpSendRequest failed:12152, Source = ycontent/stats.php?version=8.1.0.249&language=us&os=win&eve nt=FirstLogin
2007/05/18 16:13:54.718[THRD:3360] [FT60] Error - HTTP read feed failed.
2007/05/18 16:14:10.375[THRD:3432] [FT60] Error - HttpSendRequest failed:12057, Source = config/pwtoken_get?src=ymsgr&ts=1179490428&login=simplysh eldon&passwd=*******&chal=b*h%25c%7cw%7c(1-t%25y%25r%5er%5e1%5eb)%26f*a/z%7ch%2bn%5et%262-h-q%2b(4%253%7cu%26m%2bc%7c(j%261%25(h-(m*q%25d))))
2007/05/18 16:14:10.453[THRD:3432] [FT60] Error - HTTP read feed failed.
2007/05/18 16:14:10.468[THRD:3556] [CLT] Error - CYMH::OnGetToken() Reg Server Down 1.
2007/05/18 16:14:27.109[THRD:3556] [CLT] Info - ********** Log Stopped **********

Please can anybody help me how to sign in successfully in Yahoo Messenger?

[Ven0m]

Hello, have you tried going to Messenger > Connection as Yahoo is trying to sign in? If so, what is it set to? The normal setting to use is No Proxies, but you can switch between Firewall with no proxies or No network detection and see if it makes any difference.

[sheldondsouza]

Hi

yup its on normal setting. It tried all the options but still no luck. Tried to restore my pc but still no luck. Still have no ideal waht to do.

Please Help?

[sheldondsouza]

When on yahoo messenger i click get a new yahoo id, it contacting yahoo servers and then i get a message "The connection to yahoo server cannot be completed at this time"

[Dermot]

Looks from the initial post that your HTTP requests to the yahoo server is been refused / lost

It looks like it's been cut off clientside

it may be a firewall and i would check your windows firewall and your router possibly to make sure it's not blocking any requests from messenger..

If you have another firewall or anti spyware program that tracks http requests from programs i suggest you go thru the settings and make sure yahoo messenger has full permission to access the net specially for http requests.

If you still have the issue it may be getting blocked by your isp or otherwise, so you should ring your isp and explain how you can't access the yahoo website and explain the errors to them so they can check your connection for you..

If you're in a workplace it may been blocked by administrators by blacklisting some of the main yahoo websites messenger requires to work right.

[sheldondsouza]

Hi i have windows defender for antispyware and kaspersky internet secuirty for antivirus and firewall. I remove both of them and even disabled widnows firewall. Now everything should work but no. Unistalled nearly millions times and cleaned reg,temp,cache and cookies. No luck!

I guess contacting the isp is the last resort however i can sign in my yahoo mail with no problem.

Still i would like if you can find out a bit more and oh and thankyou for all your help.

[sheldondsouza]

I have installed yahoo messenger on my computer at works, it has antivirus and a router firewall where as i have no router just a modem user. It works perfectly well at work and the logs show up clean with no errors. Inspite of removing kaspersky completely an being with no antivirus nor firewall, still i cannot go through.

What should i do getting desperate here. Use yahoo more often then msn messenger. I hope i dont have to reinstall windows for making yahoo work.

[sheldondsouza]

It works !!!

Did not do anything;came home from work and saw mum using it. Just glad it works. Thanks for all your help.

[rectifiedmind]

sheldon, i guess you are lucky!.

I'm now facing the same issue like the one sheldon mentioned. YM works perfectly when i login from my work place. its been working till yesterday and all in a sudden it stopped working and i started getting the same error in the logfile. Tried all possible things i could think of. But no luck. I hope its works the same way it worked for sheldon.

I checked the connection preferences. It is set properly. I use windows firewall...Ms Defender and McAfee antivirus. i Disabled all these, still no luck.

I checked windows firewall settings too. YM is allowed there.

Can someone help me on this issue.

[rectifiedmind]

Its working now. i got it done after i reinstalled Internet Explorer 7. Dunno how!!!!...But all i know is "its working".