I have had this problem since I installed. At that time there was only
Defender installed. I installed the trial of OneCare (doesn't look good for
keeping if this is the problem).
I can find no pattern to this other than Vista.
LS
"khaan23" <khaan23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I discovered that Windows OneCare Live is the culprit; I uninstalled the
> existing installation, rebooted, and everything started working just fine.
> Downloaded it again, installed it - the connectivity went away again, so
> I'm
> uninstalling it again as I write this.
>
> My other Vista computer is running OneCare Live without any issues so it's
> still not clear why it's misbehaving on the newer installation - but if I
> figure it out, I'll let you know.
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