My son wants to use MSN to chat with his mates on his new laptop but it said it's £6.99 pcm when I went to set him up. Is that correct and any way round it e.g set up a free hotmail account? He's using our family wireless net access thru BT.com
2006-11-28 09:30:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Its free! He may be talking about an 'upgraded' paid for version, but MEssenger comes installed on your pc.
Create a user account for him and give it limited privileges.
Password protect all the accounts. Explain to him he is only to access the internet through his account.
Install good security software; Avast anti virus will check all incoming messages for viruses.
Install Firefox and delete the Internet Explorer icon from his account to stop him using it. Firefox is safer.
All the following programs are free for personal use;
You need to install one firewall.
The Windows firewall doesn't stop malware on your pc from dialling out.
http://www.zonelabs.com Zone Alarm firewall
http://www.comodogroup.com/ - Comodo security suite.
You need to install one anti virus;
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ -AVG anti virus or
http://www.avast.com - Avast Antivirus
You need all three anti spyware programs;
http://www.ewido.net - AVG(Ewido) anti trojan.
http://www.lavasoft.com - Ad-Aware SE Personal anti adware
http://www.safer-networking.org - Spybot Search and Destroy anti spyware
And these are useful utilities;
http://www.mozilla.com/ Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail program.
http://www.ccleaner.com Cr*pcleaner Registry cleaner and privacy tool
Winpatrol is a handy utility that tracks cookies on your pc and stops unwanted changes to your startup folder.
http://www.winpatrol.com
Spywareblaster works with Internet Explorer and Firefox. It won't uninstall spyware that is already on your pc, but it will prevent hijacks and other malicious changes to your browser.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com -MacAffee Site Advisor warns about malware on sites you are about to visit.
Remember to update and run all of you anti malware programs at least once a week.
2006-11-28 09:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all i done was set up a hotmail email account and the msn messenger was free, i've never known any body to pay for messenger
2006-11-28 09:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by logster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 07:32:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MSN is a Free chat software - there are NO costs involved.
Go to www.msn.co.uk and click on the messenger icon and download from there.
If you are on a site saying it costs - its a scam/bogus site.
2006-11-28 09:33:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
MSN is a really good Messenger. There are no pop-ups like yahoo. and they have really great service. I say YES! let him use it.
2006-11-28 09:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
download windows live messenger and after it's set up, it will ask if you want to save conversation history,- this means that whatever is typed in the conversation or whatever is up/downloaded will be logged in a text file(which you can specify)because after all- your kids safety online is and should be of the upmost impotance, especially in this world of todays wierdos.
2006-11-28 13:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
msn messenger is free and so is hotmail, if it costs where you are use skype or trillian
2006-11-28 09:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by Mitchell b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
msn is free.
2006-11-28 09:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by L[dot] DYM3Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my advice to you is that no because he could do something he is not supposed to or get in lots of trouble.
2006-11-28 09:33:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yahoo has free email and messenger! :D
2006-11-28 09:32:14 · answer #10 · answered by buff23_7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋