On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Simoncini, Matthew wrote: SM> I work at a large company in Natick that has recently decided to disallow SM> instant messaging clients from being used on corporate PC's. They sight a SM> concern that it is an insecure network link to the outside world that could SM> allow hackers, worms, trojans, viruses, etc ... into the otherwise protected SM> network. Whether I agree with this opinion or not I guess is irrelevant as I SM> don't have a strong enough voice to change anything. What does affect my SM> team is the ability to easily communicate with each other on a "live" or SM> instant platform within the company firewall (we have no interest really to SM> communicate outside the firewall yet). I was wondering if anyone could point Not quite what you're looking for, but... There are some Java/web clients of various messenger software available, which may go around the firewall (use web ports), that you may want to try: Yahoo's Web Messenger: http://messenger.yahoo.com/#webmessenger AIM Express: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/express/aim_expr.adp good luck! (I hope they've fixed the java a bit in the last year or two. The last time I used them they were real memory hogs on the slow machine I had at work (but they did get around the firewall)...) -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv@kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/