After a serious "dump" from simply letting my laptop go into sleep mode one night, Dell Computer techs (God bless'em) reconfigured my computer and, as if by magic, LW was back. I write this to let all know that the local blocking can be fixed. I do not know what method they (or who) is using to block LW access, but it does seem to be something inserted into individual computers (virus type), rather than an an unscaleable wall from without. Just one man's opinion, but the wall can be broken one computer at a time.