Microsoft have finally decided to close their IRC like services. Just to confirm, this does not include the use of MSN Messenger.
This move has been welcomed by childrens charities. The move by Microsoft was due to the “increase of this service being used for inappropriate communications” but is also said to push the problem further undergroud, with people handing out personal and indentifying detials about themselfs so as not to loose contact with their buddys. As of October 14th the service will be shutdown world wide, with a payed service remaining which will be moderated 24/7. Im sure this move will be hated by a large portion of the MSN Chat users and will force them onto other means of communication. Other chat sites are reported to follow suit.
MSN Messenger 6.x stores per Passport settings, so each account can have its own font colour, custom emoticons, display pictures, etc. These settings are located at HCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings and %appdata%\Microsoft\MSN Messenger.
The file system settings include: custom emoticons, display pictures, backgrounds, list cache, winks, voice clips, deluxe display pictures, dynamic backgrounds and config cache for 6.0.
There are keys/sub folders representing each Passport that has been signed in, the name of these are a certain number which represents the account.
wtbw has reversed the hashing method and posted his findings on the forums, see there for full explainations.
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At some point in some MSN Messenger applications, you may want to shut down Messenger, or restart it. This could be to apply a patch, or to make Messenger run its shut down routine, like updating the list cache, or removing the systray icon. MSN Messenger has a cross application window message method to make it exit, this is commonly used by it’s installer. When you install an update the current version is closed so it can overwrite the files.
An obvious method of shutting Messenger down would be to just use TerminateProcess, this method is very forceful and Messenger won’t perform its shutdown routine. Before you perform this kind of termination, it’s best to try the cross application window message method. This involves sending a custom window message to the Messenger system window “MSNHiddenWindowClass”, which is just an always open window for things like receiving events for the systray icon.
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MSNP.
With the release of MSN Messenger 5, it brought along a new .NET Messenger Service protocol, MSNP8. It was clear that it used a different authentication system going by the name of ‘TWN’ (later known to stand for Tweener) instead of the previous MD5 system. The client would make 2 connections to .NET Passport servers on port 443, it seemed obvious that this was the .NET Passport SSL auth system. What this process involved was rather silent for a few months. In April 2003, MrSquid revealed his ‘cookies for Web browser’ method. Other users caught on and eventually worked out how to use the Passport 1.4 authentication ‘properly’.
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Many doubted it, and many didn’t want it to happen. But it looks like it’s going ahead, you can now apply for a license at the Messenger web site.