Re: McAfee Firewall 3.0, also Netscape 7.0

From: NeoSadist (neos@dist)
Date: 10/16/02 

From: "NeoSadist" <neos@dist>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:24:00 -0600

"Peter Reid" <peter.j.reidREMOVE@MEsympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3DAD9239.4020706@MEsympatico.ca...
> Hi all,
>
> Two questions:
> 1) I have McAfee Firewall 3.0 installed on my system. Up until
> yesterday, it worked great, no problems. However, for reasons I won't
> get into, I needed to uninstall and then reinstall it. Once I did that,
> all of a sudden any program that needs to access the internet can't get
> through; it is blocked, even though I have set up these programs to have
> full, unfiltered access (this worked before yesterday). Not only that,
> but it doesn't pop up a window notifying me that a program is trying to
> do something it shouldn't; it just suppresses it entirely (I get
> timeouts or hostname not found type errors). Anyone know how I can fix
> this?
>
> 2) This isn't the scope of this ng, but if you know anything about it,
> please help me:
> Netscape 7.0, which I recently upgraded to (about a month or so ago),
> shuts itself down when I click on certain websites, or try to run
> java-type applications such as instant messaging. (For an example of a
> site I can't open, try http://www.pickeringpentecostal.com, my former
> _church_'s website). It doesn't pop up any windows or anything; just
> any Netscape window I have closes. I even tried with IE 5.5, and the
> _same_ thing happens! So I don't know if the problem is with Netscape
> or with something on my PC...anyone know why this could be happening??
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Peter
>

1) Have you asked McAfee?
2) Have you asked Netscape?