Carlijn Gerrits wrote:
I have read the FAQ on the pidgin side, but I don't understand the instructions at all.
Microsoft have messed up a security feature of the site. If you don't understand what you are doing, you should get someone you personally trust, and who is competent, to make the changes. The mechanism in question is about giving you a high level of certainty that you are dealing with the actual MSN server. You do not have that level of certainty that the information that you receive on this list or from the bug tracker is actually coming, unaltered, from those.
You need to make an informed risk assessment before following any instructions.
I have not the faintest Idea what I should do about this. I tried restarting both pidgin and the computer, but neither of these things worked.
Restarting the computer is a sledge hammer approach, and generally will not work if the problem is a real problem introduced by a change made at either end, and in particular, in this case, one made at the remote end.
The official client was probably updated, securely, in advance of this change, and, as Microsoft don't approve of the use of third party, open source, clients, they probably don't care that they have broken access from Pidgin.
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