You're absolutely right - Once Care is the culprit and it is a largely
garbage. I ran it under XP without a problem. Under Vista, it doesn't
configure the ports correctly (or in some instances at all). Turn off the
One Care firewall and enable the built-in Vista firewall and things will
work. Microsoft's support for Vista is no better than the open source apps
it criticizes. It's both disappointing and frustrating.
"khaan23" wrote:
> 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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