ok this has nothing to do with your post, but didn't know how to make my own post. so i am looking for this old techno 80's song called New York New York, can't remember who sings it, but it is an old time favorite, if anyone knows it let me know, i have been searching for it to download. thanks.

In case you do have nortan internet security.

A.Open it

B.Select Personel Firewall

C.Select Configure on the right of the screen

D.On the new screen that comes up, select Peograms

E.Find Limewire and make sure its on Automatic or Permit All

F. If not select modify and change it to Permit All

OK let me turn the apple cart over. I battled for more than six weeks to no avail to get LW connected. My ISP assured me he was not blocking me and yet no connection.Not even WinMX was connecting. Reading through sites as well as Microsoft forum it appeared that I might have a Winsock problem. I ran a repair WinXP Pro install and since then I have been up and running with no problems. I do not suggest everyone to do this but I am sharing my success with you. I run with Windows Firewall and Microsoft Anti Spyware on. For what it's worth I am sure everybody knows the importance of Winsock.dll etc

My limeiwre wasnt connecting to the internet when i opened it up so i deleted it and downloaded it again. now whenever i open up limewire it says this message:

'Limewire was unable to instilize and start. this is usually due to a firewall blocking limewires access to the internet or loopback connections on the local machine. please allow limewire access to the internet and restart limewire'

how do i overcome this so limewire will open up.
Thanks

I've had it!! I have done everything on the Limewire website & still can't connect. Program just sits there & says "enabling" but never connects.
Running AOL on Win XP-I have even disabled all the firewalls to no avail

Go to Control Panel->Windows Firewall
Click on the Exceptions Tab
Click on Add Program
Then add Limewire to the list
Then make sure Limewire is checked and hit 'OK'

Thats how I fixed mine.

It says firewall is disabled but for some reason still blocks the program.

I just D/L this limewire program and paid for this service, TODAY. when i started using it i got to D/L 5 songs. then it D/C. I tried to reconnect and windows refused to start the program. I tried to startup the program again and windows told me that there was a malicious code in the program and I shouldn't open it. I tried anyways and the window wouldn't even pop-up. So I reinstalled it. Still unsuccessful. I deleted everything and D/L a new program off of the internet. Still nothing. knowing about this virus I had already cleaned my system before trying to start up the program again and D/L ing the new ones.
I might call Customer Care, and try to get my money ack because that was a ripoff. Unless you can solve this problem.

I tried your thing to fix it 3 times and it didn't work. on top of that I lost everything I had saved on limewire. right now I am trying it get it back but I must have done something wrong

Jason, read thru the virus threads on the forum. There are some worms & trojans to look out for. How to stop them? Keep your anti-virus programs active & make sure you have up to date virus definitions. There's some good free av programs out there. Check all incoming files/before you attempt to open them!!!!!!!!!

the guy who can't connect how did you lose everything? If you keep your setting set to default for downlding then there's no way you should have lost anything you downlded earlier. Earlier in the thread (a page or 2 back), I list a set of questions asking for details of everybody's set up & some simple tests to do. If you can answer those questions & tests & we'll see how we can help you.