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re: unable to download in either NS or IE Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 10:23 pm Posted by Adi_R (59 messages posted) Are you using a Firewall???If you are it may be blocking the downloads.. On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:26 pm, Chris Peters wrote: >Running 2000 pro fully patched. Whenever I try to download from any site in either >Netscape 4.79 or Internet explorer 6 it fails. no warning sign or error msg just >seems to die out. goes from hourglass back to pointer. Any ideas suggestions? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: unable to download in either NS or IE Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 8:10 am Posted by Chris Peters (3 messages posted) No, no firewall. On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 10:23 pm, Adi_R wrote: > >Are you using a Firewall???If you are it may be blocking the downloads.. > > > >On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:26 pm, Chris Peters wrote: >Running 2000 pro fully patched. Whenever I try to download from any site in either >Netscape 4.79 or Internet explorer 6 it fails. no warning sign or error msg just >seems to die out. goes from hourglass back to pointer. Any ideas suggestions? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: unable to download in either NS or IE Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 5:06 am Posted by ap (6 messages posted) peters: what antivirus software are you running? ~ap [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: unable to download in either NS or IE Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 7:55 am Posted by Chris Peters (3 messages posted) Norton AV 2002 On Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 5:06 am, ap wrote: >peters: >what antivirus software are you running? >~ap [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: unable to download in either NS or IE Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 8:24 am Posted by ap (6 messages posted) peters: as a test, try disabling your NAV, then refresh your desktop (F5) or reboot (if you reboot, set your NAV settings to "manual startup"). try a download. i see that you mentioned you didn't run a firewall, but did your NAV2002 come bundled with Norton Internet Security?. ~ap [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum