AOL 9.0 dialup won't connect - NO firewall but AOL says so

AOL gives an error message that a firewall is preventing a dialup connection.

The user HAS Norton IS but it is turned off (they can't connect to update their subscription), the service was manually stopped.

Why is AOL giving this error message when no firewall is present (user is on XP SP1 that has no firewall in Control Panel)?

JL

Reply to
Jim Lewandowski
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AOL is a company. You mean that lousy lousy lousy unnecessary AOL software? Get rid of it and use Windows' dialup.

So what? It's actually stopping only if you uninstall it. Which is something that should be done anyway.

XP SP1 that

Because

  1. a lousy host-based packet-filter is present
  2. the AOL software is crap and searches for some lame excuses
  3. or both
Reply to
Sebastian Gottschalk

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Norton IS is a lousy packet- & _content_-filter AFAIK.

;-)

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Ewert

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