I've used Limewire for a while now and never had a problem. A few days ago I've been stuck on connecting. Although it says that there's a firewall detected it hasn't interfered with it up to this point. I'm using Windows XP at home with about 2-3GB of ram and a shaw secure firewall. I've made sure that the firewall allows Limewire but nothing works. I've also noticed that I'm not the only one that has had this problem recently. I have Limewire 4.12.11 and Java 1.6.0_01 according to Limewire.