Connection Issues

[Capt. Couch]

Greetings, I am Captain Couch, and LimeWire has an issue connecting to the Gnutella network from my computer. Just to let you know, I have read around, but nothing that I have read has solved my problem. You see, here's my issue...

I recently ran my subscription to Norton Antivius 2006 dry and decided to get rid of it, simply because it costs more money to resubscribe to virus lists than to buy the program itself. I downloaded AVG Free Edition after hearing good things about it. Well, everything seemed to be going smoothly, AVG Free updated regularly, there were no issues with AVG blocking programs. Then, I wanted to use LimeWire, and found that it would not connect to the Gnutella network like it normally did when I had Norton Antivirus installed. I suspected that my new antivirus software was the problem, so I read around and was told to turn the Resident Shield of AVG Free off. That solved nothing. I also find that there seems to be no way to allow exceptions for programs and ports in AVG Free. However, I'm still unsure of the cause of this problem. Could anybody please help me out? Thanks!