I tried deleting everything and restarting the computer. Then I downloaded limewire and still have the same problem. It claims to be detecting a firewall. I just think they trying to make us pay and get the upgrade.

Anybody else find a solution to this problem?

I am sorry that did not work for you. I was having the same problem even when I totally shut off Norton and Windows defenses. I even uninstalled Li,ewire and reinstalled it three times as well as trying all of the other tricks that are posted and finally I decided to delete everything associated with limewire and updated my Java. I guess the last time was the charm for me. From what I have read it is affecting even those who have upgraded.

I thought this might help you as it did me, should I come across any other possible tricks I shall post them here to hopefully help you and others facing this pain in the neck of a problem.

Not true, I have had Pro for over a year now. I have not used it for a few months and when I stopped it was working fine.

Well tonight it would not connect due to the firewall issue. So I paid the 14 bucks to get another upgrade since it has been 6 months now.

Still it does not work. I will try to do the un-install/delete everything to see if that works. If not, I will just move on to another p2p program as there are a ton of them out there.