i hav vista and i downloaded limewire but it cant connect to download any songs. i have java 6 but it still doesnt work. any ideas?

Well.. there are several ideas listed on this thread. Have you read them or tried to apply those techniques to your system?

I guess the most important things are:

- make sure there's a hole in your network firewall
- make sure there's a hole in your personal firewall

and for me, it was uninstalling Mcafee Privacy Policy.

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Do I have to remove the whole thing? I've already removed the firewall n the privacy protection n still doesnt work... I really dont want to remove the anti virus, and if I do have to remove the whole thing what r the best alternatives?

Yes, you have to remove the whole thing. Then get a stable and free anti-virus like AVG FREE instead of that McAfee bloated piece of crapl

What about the other McAfee features like email and IM protection, file protection, disk scans, and all that other stuff, how do u make up for it?