Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human
Looks liek the software "virtual ports" (as opposed to physical ports) on your comp are unavailable to the messenger service. Could be a number of things, but spyware/malware is a likely culprit
Ad Aware hasn't detected anything yet, and Spybot is just starting up, so hopefully one of them will catch something..

Ad Aware also gave me a message about the ports being unavailable when it tried to update.