Thanks to help received in this forum I have been using LW without problems for the last couple of months.

However, I recently changed my firewall to Comodo (from Jetico) and now see the firewall indicator (brickwall).

Having said that, performance doesn't seem to have been affected: searches return as many results, downloads are no slower and uploads take place regularly.

It seems curious that changing firewalls is the cause of the problem but Comodo is not blocking traffic; apart from the fact that searches etc. work fine, I can see the traffic flowing from within Comodo!

All suggestions gratefully received: a search of earlier posts here hasn't shed any light on the matter so I'm off to give the Comodo forum a try.

Thanks in advance.