Thnks for the response. I Have disabled the firewall completely when I originally tried and once I formatted my drive and reinstalled there was no windows firewall as I had not added sp1 or sp2. I hope that maybe there is another work around. Formatting was a final effort. The only things on my drive were xp with no updates and Limewire Pro 4.10.9. I tried using the free version of Limewire but I got the same thing, Brick wall in front of the globe "limewire has detected a firewall. Help