Re: AOL 9.0 dialup won't connect - NO firewall but AOL says so

Jim Lewandowski wrote:
AOL gives an error message that a firewall is preventing a dialup connection.

AOL is a company. You mean that lousy lousy lousy unnecessary AOL
software? Get rid of it and use Windows' dialup.

The user HAS Norton IS but it is turned off (they can't connect to update their
subscription), the service was manually stopped.

So what? It's actually stopping only if you uninstall it. Which is
something that should be done anyway.

Why is AOL giving this error message when no firewall is present (user is on XP SP1 that
has no firewall in Control Panel)?

Because
1. a lousy host-based packet-filter is present
2. the AOL software is crap and searches for some lame excuses
3. or both
.