I'm a new visitor to this site and perhaps I am missing something, but I haven't seen any mention of what caused the identical problem in my connections to limewire.

Have any of you folks recently installed Audiogalaxy? Audiogalaxy and Bearshare and two KNOWN sites that sneak spyware onto your computer. Audiogalaxy sneaks Webhancer onto your system and Bearshare sneaks new.net onto your system.

We had downloaded Audiogalaxy just before all our problems began. After using Limewire flawlessly for a few months, we suddenly could not connect. We were frustrated for a week. We also were attempting to download WinMX and could not download it.

After being told about the spyware, we went to ad-aware.com and downloaded their program. After checking our system, 52 spyware components were discovered and removed.

After running ad-aware, all connections to limewire were fine once again and we were able to download WinMX with no problem. Has been working great since.