Do the bars turn green for you when you connect? I get that message a lot too seems to happen to me if Ive been on for a long time or my internet is lagging or my cable has disconnected. what kind of connection do you have? Check your settings in LW to make sure you got it configed properly, and check the Limewire's licence to see what you got it set at? and I dont rec. you not having any protection while downloading, hava a AV running & a firewall if not using windows firewall then get a third party one for protection.