MSN & Windows Live Messenger blocks YouTube URLs
A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere are alight with reports of Microsoft's new block on messages containing YouTube URLs. Both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger reportedly implement the block. One blogger sniffed the network to discover that such messages receive a NAK from Microsoft's servers. Microsoft has been blocking messages by keyword, as an anti-phishing measure, for some time, but *.youtube.com would not seem to provoke much worry about phishing.
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[...] - All fixed Dharmesh over at Inside Windows Live Messenger reports that the problem, where MSN Messenger & Windows Live Messenger service was incorrectly blocking some legitimate IP addresses, inculding YouTube.com has been fixed. It was triggered in [...]
