Hi all,
LW has detected a firewall on my PC even when I have none.

I have WinXP+SP2 with the firewall (and the whole Security Centre) turned off. No firewall software (or even an antivirus) has been installed (other than WinXP's native firewall) - as I hard formatted my disk and reinstalled (clean installed) everything a month back.

Limewire worked fine all this while - and suddenly refuses to connect saying a firewall has been detected. The firewall icon appears at the bottom-left corner of the program window. I double checked to see if Windows firewall had somehow started itself. It's turned off!

My TCPIP connection is patched (to allow 100 connnections). I was on uPnP - but have also manually tried forwarding on port 6346. No use. Manually added 6346 in TCP and UDP - two seperate services - one for TCP and one for UDP. I am directly connected to the internet - No router or firewall.

Uninstalled Limwire. Ran the .jar file. Clean installed again. Still no connection. Limewire would classify my connectin as Turbocharged but now it only says Starting Connection.

LimeWire has just plain suddenly stopped connecting. Any ideas what could be happening? Why is LimeWire detecting a firewall? What firewall is it detecting anyway? I have only SP2's firewall! That too, turned off.

Tried everything in the forums. Does anyone have any clues what's happening?

Thank you all.
AG