81003004 Yahoo Messenger Login Error

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Though I love Yahoo! for all its work online, there are a few times when Yahoo! gives problems too ๐Ÿ™‚ Since yesterday when I installed the Miscrosoft Visual Studio Express, I was not able to login to the messenger. It was giving me a error called 81003004 and told me to try again later. Trying it again after 12 hours, it was still giving me that error, meaning something else was wrong.

The solution?

Goto Connectionย  Prefrences and use a http proxy. It helped!!!

Hope this helps! Let me know if you know of any other workaround for this login error on yahoo messenger.

Methods Suggested by other users to remove 81003004 error in yahoo messenger:

First method:

1. go to messenger menu
2. select connection preference/ preference
3. the tab will automatic select connection preference, if it doesnโ€™t, select it manual.
4. change your internet conection type, for my problem i choose broadband(DSL/Cable).

Second Method

For me, it was because I had set a localhost (127.0.0.1) proxy in Internet Explorer for anti-filtering purposes, thru which Y! Messenger was trying to connect. So I had to remove it to get it done.

just go to:
Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections (tab) > Lan Settings (button)

then uncheck the Proxy server checkbox.

Third Method


Comments

102 responses to “81003004 Yahoo Messenger Login Error”

  1. hmmm Thats wierd! I have visual studio and do not have any issues. Are you sure you are using the latest version of YM?

  2. yes, yahoo messenger 9 ๐Ÿ™‚ I am not sure if it the express or something else…..yest. was the barcamp and my laptop was used for the presentation….some software installed yest. was causing this problem.

  3. hey..thnx..
    it helped me alot..

  4. thnx it was very helpful. thnx again.

  5. I tried what you suggested but it didn’t work for me I’m still having problems and don’t know what to do. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. Jeevanarun Avatar

    Ya, it works. I don’t know why the problem happened after having my network connection shared. but, when i changed the proxy setting, it works agin.

    thanks man.

  7. Hey, Thnx alot, it worked on mine too, i am not using any proxy on my iexplorer when i was at home, but im in a vacation now, and im using proxy on my iexplorer, thats why ๐Ÿ˜‰

  8. Happy New Year btw ๐Ÿ˜€

  9. Thanks man, it worked!

  10. that really helped a lot. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been having a hard time using Meebo for a while. I’m glad I cam across this post. thanks again!

  11. thanks
    its work

  12. i have the same prob. but it begun when i have a lan connection. I did what you did and still not working someone help me

  13. I tried it but didnt work. I dont know where am going wrong!! If you could help me to resolve this problem, I will be very happy and get to start communicating with my friends again.

  14. I have mcafee total protection and turned off the firewall service and yahoo msngr connected fine.

    1. In that case, open the firewall program, add yahoo messennger, ysmgr.exe to the trusted application part and then it will work fine….

  15. i am too getting same error since few days. i am just switching connection from “connect directly to connect via” 1 or to times back & front. but i am getting connected through “connect directly”

  16. radu gabriel Avatar
    radu gabriel

    Thanks man , in my case was the other way. I had a connection problem with the explorer . I did not noticed that because I use Mozila

  17. how come it didn’t work for me :(( I’m still getting the same error 81003004 everytime I log in…anymore suggestion?

  18. It is not working on my end. I had tried using the proxy connection.

  19. could u help me? its not workin on mine. i just bought my pc. i dnt knw wats wrong with this. can anybody give a help?

  20. I just upgraded to msg 9 and had this problem thanks for the solution

  21. my setting was to use http proxy already so i did the opposite and used “Connect directly to the Internet” — IT WORKED!

  22. yah it works, but, i can’t post any images and can’t use my web cam. what should i do?

  23. sreekanth Avatar

    Hi

    I had a smilar problem, the problem here is in your own computer or PC, during your prevous logout the yahoo temp files which needs to be updated orcleared has not happened. Clear your cache, not just clearing your browser files and cookies a through clearing is requried, use tools like CC Cleaner which is available free on NET http://www.ccleaner.com/, download and install and run it, it clearrs all the temp files, the cache files, the prefetch files ( Present in your C:windowsprefetch), which may be causing this error, i always do this and it immediately logins in back.

    Cheers

    Sreekanth
    Bangalore
    India

  24. reinstall is the best solution

  25. Silver_bulletblondie_2005 Avatar
    Silver_bulletblondie_2005

    Thx so much..it so worked for me!! I have bookmarked this site..;P

  26. ~TracyDanyel~ Avatar
    ~TracyDanyel~

    Worked for me ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks

  27. Hi,

    If it didn’t work for you, there could be another workaround. For me, it was because I had set a localhost (127.0.0.1) proxy in Internet Explorer for anti-filtering purposes, thru which Y! Messenger was trying to connect. So I had to remove it to get it done.

    just go to:
    Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections (tab) > Lan Settings (button)

    then uncheck the Proxy server checkbox.

    Hope it helps.

  28. HadSameProblem Avatar
    HadSameProblem

    Worked for me Thanks.

  29. @ majid, thanks for the tip! thats a nice solution too…

  30. In my case, I had McAffee anti virus Total protection. In this it worked only after TURNING OFF THE ACCESS PROTECTION. IF I TURN ON ACCESS PROTECTION IT’S NOT WORKING.

  31. Thanx a lot!! ๐Ÿ˜‰ Worked!!!

  32. or if you are on XP pro or Home edition. Right click on (IE) Internet Explorer, Properties, click the “connections” tab. Click “LAN settings” below right, then unchecked the “use a proxy server…” then click “automatically detect settings” then OK, Apply, OK.. then log in again to your YM. this things only happen when you are on shared router or LAN.

    Enjoy

  33. i upgraded my msg to 9.0 and got this problem. thank god i came across your site. tnx

    1. glad to help with resolving yahoo messenger errors ๐Ÿ™‚ Yahoo! rocks!

  34. I downloaded and installed to latest version from thier site 9….36 but gives me the error code (81003004). I have tried every thing on this site and every where but still does not work. I removed the new one totally then restarted my laptop and installed version 8 still the same problem. Its a shame.

  35. Hi
    it works for me, thx a lot.
    Yooohooooo

  36. well i used yahoo and visual studio for couple of days and suddenly one day this problem

  37. thanks a bunch. it worked.

  38. Hello, i have ym 9 and got the same error. I’ve checked the http proxy option in yahoo messenger’s preferences, but the problem did not solved. Than i remembered that yesterday i’ve configured IE to use a proxy server (although i have default browser Firefox). I could login only after i set off the proxy setting in my IE.

  39. yay!!! thanks a lot sweety! it really works!!

  40. Mahmoud Aziz Avatar
    Mahmoud Aziz

    “IT” ๐Ÿ™‚
    it worked with me..!

  41. I get this error code and I can’t switch to http proxy unless I sign in… it is so frustrating… HELP!

  42. phoenix Avatar

    been having this problem for 2 days already. it’s very frustrating. i’m also getting Network Timeout error everytime i browse the web. im using mozilla. also getting 8007274c & 80072eff when i tried logging into my msn messenger. i’ve tried all possible solutions… still not working. i dont know what to do anymore. ๐Ÿ™

  43. Mahmoud Avatar

    Thanks a lot.
    it worked like magic ๐Ÿ˜€
    i had the same issue for the past few das, and i had to login to my yahoo messenger account through some other websites

    again
    thanks a million

  44. mohamed Avatar

    thnxx u very very very much

  45. yes it’s really work!! thanx

  46. huh…doesnt work for chaging i.p been days….i dont know why….

  47. tuvshuu Avatar

    thanks it’s work

  48. Thank you very much ๐Ÿ™‚
    [email protected]

  49. thx alot it works

  50. mohamed ragab Avatar
    mohamed ragab

    thanx very much

  51. BEST SOLUTION:

    1- Go to Connection Preferences and use a Http proxy.

    2- Right click on (IE) Internet Explorer, Properties, click the โ€œconnectionsโ€ tab. Click โ€œLAN settingsโ€ AND SET YOUR PROXY SETTING (If you have).

  52. Dude it really worked… Cheers 4 that:D

  53. this is the best answer i’ve ever been

  54. thanks dude,because of this prb i didn chat for two days.

  55. rachel Avatar

    thanks a lot!! i wasn’t able to log-in to yahoo for so long.. it was a great help!! thanks again..

  56. i hv msisa 2004 as proxy and till ym8 it worked fine.. but after upgrading to ym9.0.0.2162 it does not work… tried the proxy settings mentined above but doesnot work (if i bypass proxy and configure direct acces to the machine it works normally) what exactly yahoo chnaged in the new version 9.0 ? for the users behind the firewall??

  57. hendramon Avatar
    hendramon

    i solve with diferent way.
    i have this problem too, but i can solve he problem by change your conection setting in preference:
    1. go to messenger menu
    2. select connection preference/ preference
    3. the tab will automatic select connection preference, if it doesn’t, select it manual.
    4. change your internet conection type, for my problem i choose broadband(DSL/Cable).
    best regards

  58. thanks hendramon! that was the solution !

  59. Thanks for your solution
    I had this problem too.I had set an ip for proxy sever in my browser and that was the reason i had this problem
    so i removed it and now its working

  60. tnx a lot, it is great

  61. sunchip express Avatar
    sunchip express

    Thnks a bunch!!! That worked perfectly.

  62. Elijah Avatar

    thank you, i just uncheck the proxy server in the LAN settings

  63. I am not convinced it’s my cache or anything with my computer! My Yahoo ID will not log into my laptop or my boyfriend’s desktop, however, his will log into his Yahoo ID on both machines just fine. I really think it’s a YAHOO problem and not a local computer problem. I did attempt each of the fixes suggested above and nothing so far has worked. I still get the same 81003004 error using my ID only.

  64. hi, thanks a lot….as in very much……….i did it. I used the second method……i wasnt able to connect on ym for almost 4 months..coz of that 81003004 error…

  65. For me, it was a corrupt user ID. My ID would not work in YIM or get me to my mail, though Yahoo did recognize who I was – I could get to my account settings, but could not access mail. I simply created a new email and YIM user ID and have not had a problem since. I could get onto it all with the new user ID, but not the old one. So, I deleted the old (corrupt) user ID and I am back up and running. None of the other fixes worked after over two hours of trying everyone’s suggestion.

  66. Sophie Avatar

    oh my gosh! Thank you so much for the methods! This helped me so much <333

  67. thanks man
    the second method worked for me
    thanks again
    gogo

  68. Makoy26 Avatar

    good day!
    thanks a lot, now my yahoo messenger is in good…

  69. it helped a lot ! thanks ! i have also installed visual studio but i think that’s not the reason for this problem because i have experienced this problem twice .. the first time i experienced this, i haven’t installed visual studio yet. but it helped me! thanks a lot : )

  70. tnx dude!!!!

    you fix my problem it helps me a lot,tnx….

  71. thank you very much! ^_^

  72. Thanks a lot mannnn it workssssssssss

    Again thanks………

  73. McAffee was blocking my shit too!
    tks!!! smal

  74. 1. go to messenger menu
    2. select connection preference/ preference
    3. the tab will automatic select connection preference, if it doesnโ€™t, select it manual.
    4. change your internet conection type, for my problem i choose broadband(DSL/Cable).
    5. Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections (tab) > Lan Settings (button) then uncheck the Proxy server checkbox and check automatically detect setting
    6. Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections (tab) > dial-up and virtual private Network setting > select your default connection > setting > check automatically detect setting

    ???????? ??????? ?? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ???? ?? ??.

  75. thx for your help..
    I spend a whole months just to fix this problem..

    best solution for me..
    :-bd

  76. Muhammad Akhtar Avatar
    Muhammad Akhtar

    Dear
    i just only write Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkksssssss
    thanks again

  77. hey guys this worked for me! Thanks so much for posting. Keep it coming…..xoxo

  78. Nandkumar Avatar

    It works! thanks buddy. I tried the 1st option.

  79. Ya this option “Coonection via proxy server” worked for me, Thanks for posting…..

  80. hey… thank u thank u… sooo much its working it helped alot to me….

  81. wow amazing soln i was about to unistall my ym and reinsatll it… great tnx a lot

  82. hi. i had the same problem concerning loging in yahoo msn & my Internet explore appeared not connected. finally i solved the problem. do as follows:
    go to explore browser < tools < internet connection < connection (tab)< setting < deactivate the proxy server < ok < ok

  83. thanks…

  84. One more solution, from my own case, applied for ones using Kaspersky Internet Security:

    Step 1: KIS -> Protection tab -> Firewall -> click on “Configure”
    ( or KIS -> Setting -> Protection -> Firewall)

    Step 2: In Firewall tab, look at “Enable filtration system”, now you lower the bar to “Training Mode” (you can try to set the bar lower to “Low Security” or even “Allow All” in case “Training Mode” doesn’t work).

    Step 3: Apply -> OK

    Step 4: Try Y!M again.

    Hope this will help. And thanks all for providing solutions for the error 81003004 (^_^).

  85. i concet with internet by 3g wireless but yahoo Messenger can not work

  86. thank you for this page . after contacting yahoo & spending hours getting my yahoo messenger to work this is the only site that fixed it .. my misses thanks you to . she can finally talk to her family by web cam again..thanks again

  87. yipee!it rily works. tnx a lot!=)

  88. Thanks , that worked although i didnt even set the lan settings that way in the first place so dont know how that happened!

  89. glad they keep these posts…option 2 worked for me! THANKS!

  90. OMG thank you it worked like a charm now… this is the real deal folks

  91. ok
    thank you

  92. In my case, ‘Connect via a proxy server’ is already checked so I tried to directly connect to the internet and it solved the problem. Thanks for the post, though.

  93. girish menon Avatar
    girish menon

    i cn’t acsses my messenger id & account

  94. tnx man! it worked!

  95. thanks man it worked!

  96. it worked ๐Ÿ™‚ . thanks a lot for helping .

  97. THANKS! FIRST IN SEARCH RESULTS – WORKED LIKE A CHAMP! ๐Ÿ™‚

  98. The fix for the issue with McAfee blocking Yahoo Messenger is to go into McAfee’s VirusScan Console, go to Access Protection Policies, go to the Common Maximum Protection policy group, and add YahooMessenger.exe to the Prevent HTTP communication policy exclusion group. Part of the issue here also was that this policy was not set to report, and therefore it was not logging the blocking.

  99. good idea

  100. Fixed it — Both Yahoo and Windows LIve messenger seem to inherit IE Browser settings. Though I was not using IE7(or 6), as was using Firefox, the corporate IE settings had included a proxy which was not available at home. Changed the proxy setting to none in IE and both Y! and Live messenger became ok.
    [System : XP Professional; Yahoo! IM – 9.0.0.2162, Windows LIve – Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8117.416)

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