How many fire walls you useing....are you set to allow lime to run through them.... Nyself i only have norton AV and worm running,,,turned windows fire wall of many months ago...but check to make sure once in while windows doesnt try to be the one running my system and turn it back on...as it will first chance yit gets oryou have installed any fixes or patchs from micro..or upgraded your explorer.....

Just an old highway tramp
---Bill---