What antivirus are you using. You may need to portforward your router follow the instructions in the link below for portfowarding.

http://portforward.com/english/route...outerindex.htm

__________________










A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

I'm having the same problem and I do have McAfee but what if I don't want to uninstall it? Is there any settings that I can change in McAfee to make it work without uninstalling the program? I kind of wanted to keep my antivirus program becuz I'm kind of paranoid about things. Or is there a better FREE antivirus program that I can use?

I have Norton AV 2007, and i tried uninstalling it to see if that would work, but LW still wouldn't connect.

I tried a lot of things regards mc afee, vista and LW. The only solution to keep you antivirus and run Lime wire without problems is:

1.- go to control panel
2.- uninstall programs
3.- select mc afee
4.- unistall privacy service and spam killer
5.- restart you computer and you'll be able to conect to internet and use Lime Wire at the same time as well as you internet explorer.

I had to call mc afee to figure this out cuz was been a pain in the a.... this problem and this is the only solution that they have for now until they fix those compatibility problems with vista, mc afee and LW.

I have my laptop with vista, lime wire and explorer working really good, any question contact me @* email address removed*

Hope this work for you folks!!!

I have suddenlink cable modem and that is who provides my macfee service. It appears when i go to uninstall privacy service and spam killer there is no option for these. Just site advisor and virus scan and firewall. What should i do now?

moonbaby

You can use Avast or any number of other anti viruses that do not affect LimeWire.

Avast is free and is among the top rated anti viruses. It also uses far less resources than most AV software.

But I did see where another member of the forums was having problems with Avast causing timeouts with there ISP. You can get Avast at the link below

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Jay651

Did you try Portforwarding

__________________










A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

I finally got LimeWire to work by finding the port LimeWire uses to communicate and making an exception in the McAfee firewall. Right after I saved the settings, my internet browser came back online and I could finally browse through music. Hope this helps you out.

Mr McGrunt how do you find the port limewire uses?

To find LimeWire's listening port go to Tools/Options/Click the Advanced drop down arrow/Firewall Config and the port number will be listed at the top of the menu. Just add that port number (or set it to one that is already open) to your firewall excluded list.

Grandpa, I tried downloading avast and then port forwarding it still didn't work. I also downloaded Bearshare and it works. I know these two basically are the same and I still don't know why LW wont connect.