Ultrapeer is not disabled ;

what is the risk in totally turning off my firewall and just relying on windows defender and free avg ???

I'm not knowledgeable enough about Windows security, but would not recommend turning your firewall off.

If you're getting a firewalled icon then it's usually either due to no firewall exception (or needs to be re-added) or UPnP is failing. If the latter then you may need to port forward for the port it uses. But it needs to be a port no other application uses, including any other file-sharing program.

Thank you , the alert reminder emails are coming every time now ;

Well this clone of lw is firewalled also but the incoming searches are coming up as normal ;

I tried to solve the problem by going to aresgalaxyonline.com and updating winmx to the latest version but my free avg alerted that as a major virus ; i ignored that and ordered the download to proceed ; but it just says the download can not be done and will not be installed ;

Do LemonWire and WinMX Music use the same ports? Make sure they don't.

Optional: I don't have the most recent WinMX Music installer but used the following one & it then said there was an update and it updated itself from memory. There's nothing in my Downloads folder. WinMX Music free, but note this is the old version. After installing it will ask if you wish to update & an installer will temporarily download. I don't know if your AV will panic with it though.

Just be careful of the installation steps, so watch it carefully. There's many 3rd party installation options (between 6 to 8 of them.) I clicked Decline to all of them.

Looks like they are using different ports ;

You could try port forwarding for WinMX (and LemonWire) if you wish to see if that fixes the 'firewall' problem.

You have one or two software firewalls? If you have a 3rd party one then the programs will need to be added as exceptions to them.

Definitely no third party firewalls ; just the one that came bundled up with the original brand new windows hp vista security system
; i have ticked both winmx and lemonwire so they can both connect to the internet ;

i shall try some port forwarding and report back the results in a few days ;