Firewall problem. I think...

[Pablicosta]

Sorry to trouble you guys again, I understand my PC is an analy retentive ass hat and deserves to live on a scrap heap. But untill I get my laptop in September Im stuck with this piece of crud.

Okay, so first off MSN messenger wont sign in, for the past 2 days. It just says
"Sorry, Unable to sign you into Messenger at this time, please try again later. 80072efd".
Secondly, I use Limewire file sharing (www.limewire.com), and when I start the computer a get an error message saying something about it not being able to connect to the network because of a firewall.
I checked this out, and found that my Norton Internet Security has expired and needs to be activated again. However, I did have the Norton Firewall turned off I think. I then checked the Windows Firewall and it says...
"Settings cannot be displayed because Windows Firewall is not running...Do you want to run it? YES/NO"
I hit yes and it comes up with
"Windows cannot start the firewall/internet connection sharing".

Its got me dumbfounded-I obviously have an internet connection, cause I'm here. Hmm.
All I can think of is last week I ran through a series of clean up things, recomended in an article on the windows website, which involved de-activating things in MSConfig->Autorun/Startup. Next time I turned the mahcine on, it prompted me to change this back, so I changed it to what the mahcine reccomended. Could this be screwing with my PC?

Any help much appreciated

 

[Pablicosta]

I solved the problem with viewing the Firewall stuff, but it still wont connect me to MSN or Limewire. It says I dont have an internet connection. Could it be something with restricting ports? I dont know how to change that if it is.

 

[Neomega]

I solved the problem with viewing the Firewall stuff, but it still wont connect me to MSN or Limewire. It says I dont have an internet connection. Could it be something with restricting ports? I dont know how to change that if it is.

eeww! Norton Internet Security.

Can you get to secure websites? (PayPal, your Bank, Ebay?)

Have you tried re-installing Limewire?

Did you recently uninstall Norton, or try to uninstall it?

 

[Pablicosta]

Yes Norton deserves to be shot into Space I know...

I could, the Internet was working fine.

Nope, since MSN was screwing arround too.

I have since


I actually fixed it by fiddling with the open ports in Internet Security, somehow everything is back as it should be now, which is nice.

 

[Strider]

It's most likely your firewall settings, one thing I've learned is that firewalls work a hell of alot better when you don't mess with them. I currently have Norton (Firewall and Internet Security), the windows firewall, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware Protection running (there all non-configured, I haven't messed with them once sense they've been installed). I can connect to both Limewire and MSN (I can also get on IRC, Trillian, Battle.net, and GameSpy Arcade with no problems).

I would recommend checking what ports MSN and Limewire run on, and then going into your firewall and making sure that it allows those ports.

 

[Pablicosta]

Thats what I did, I went into internet Settings>Advanced Settings... and added all the Ports MSN uses, all 14 of them. Seemed to do the trick.

 

[CruddyLeper]

* Cruddyleper applauds

Nice work - I really didn't have a clue how to solve this.

Cruddy computers are not so bad once you get used to them.

 

[Pablicosta]

It pissed me off too much by yesterday, so I found the System recovery disk and wiped everything from the PC to start again. Thank god!