Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Windoze XP Service Pack 2 Update
 

Microshaft strikes again...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242

WARNING:
Contains material which should be offensive to your intelligence !

Notice the amusing use of the word Sometimes !

I never wanted to know those things!:eek: Stop it!

Salut Ursula ;)

You can take it...
I know you can !


This little update gift from Micro$haft is continuing to cause huge problems for everyone, everywhere, so a gentle bump here for now... Better than adding this as another 'sticky', hmmm ?

All hail Microsoft

I found the best way to take it is to shut the damn firewall OFF. Works for me.

Isn't Microsoft grand!!!??? (tongue in cheeck)

Regards.

I still can't connect despite everything ..
 

I can't connect despite following setup in regard to ports, etc. I have Windows XP

I agree just turn it off and If I'm correct I believe it only blocks connections one way, outward not inward.

Oddly enough all my internet programs are added as exceptions on the Windows Firewall. But, since installing it, i don't get hacked ... as much.

[COLOR=dark-blue]I have McAfee Personal Firewall, which is wonderful, no "in loco parentis" behavior. McAfee advises turning off SP2, and even has a neat little demo on how to do this.

It seems a little silly to dl & install something which doesn't play nicely with the rest of the software, then have to turn it off. So I never installed it. So far I haven't been successfully hacked. McAfee is set to "tight security", and limewire gets through, np.:D [/COLOR]

get this, My computer wont let me shut off the dam thing! I wanna scream! I cant use Limewire cause it wont connect!!!

buddah,

If LimeWire keeps restarting on it's own, then it's prolly a virus. See this thread: WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of!. See point (4), and then check out the link to Norbies World at the bottom of the page.

Been there done that, had limewire hiccupping restart all over the place until I unpluged my dsl modem (not necessarily necessary, but I figured if the nasties were trying to phone home to add more badstuff -see Wikipdeia for all the tech terms :shoot: I wasn't going to make it ez), and purged W32.Alcra.B. Should be running peer guardian, and scan any file b4 opening it (though NAV has caught many in mid download).

I too am having the same problems with wins sp2 and LW, I am definitely behind Windows firewall and can not figure out how to work around it or better yet through it. I've tried most of the fixes on this site but none have work so far. I have a Dell Dim4 pc and I am running wins xp home edition I have uninstall Mcafee Virus SW, are there any more suggestions out there if so let us hear from you. I have found the following link on microsoft web site Troubleshooting Windows Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2 for advanced users
it is titled Troubleshooting Windows Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2 for advance users, I am going to check it out some you all may want to take a look at it also to see if it can help. 2Eazee