Ranana I have no idea whether this will lead to some hints (I'm a mac person sorry), but I've a few links related to Win ME: Link 1 , & Link 2 , & Link 3 , & lastly Link 4. This is obviously not my area, but there might be some points there. There's also a forum/2 you can post about such things specific to Win ME. Just a thought. But then, does win me have its own firewall? I suspect it's the firewall brand/router brand that you might need to be having a look at. See pointers about this at bottom of the following page http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml or search the forum for firewall/router.