I’ve been using Windows 7 for around a month, and I have already been affected by a major issue that only with the help of the excellent guys and gals of the TWiT Army helped me work out, though in the end I ended up figuring out what had happened.
Ever since I had installed Windows 7, I noticed that each Microsoft service I had on the computer, (Updates, Zune Marketplace, Messenger [though it wasn’t actually working anyway due to a compatibility issue]), automatically timed out, or report that there was no internet connection, even if everything else on my notebook would connect with no problem. Being under the bane of Telstra, and experiencing more or less the same situation so I thought that it was the case, we had reached our cap and Telstra had stalled our service, and I passed it off as that.
That was the case until the first of the month came around and nothing seemed to have been rectified, I did some looking, and online resources didn’t tell me anything I needed to know. Considering that Windows 7 is in Beta, I figured it might have been a regional issue, or just 7 having a hissy fit. I went to the TWiT chatroom, to see if anyone else was experiencing the same problem. At the same point I was trying to figure out what was going on with Messenger’s continual crashing at start up, McAfee’s detection protocols failing to update, and Update timing out.
After a process of elimination, aided by MirandaJanell, David522, and troubled among others, I narrowed the issue down to McAfee, the virus scan I get for free thanks to my father. In my research I discovered that McAfee, like a number of other anti-virus companies; were not compatible with the browser, but when the final release client comes out they will support it.
It turns out that McAfee’s Firewall was looking at the Windows 7 codes, that came whenever a Microsoft service tried to contact the internet as an unknown process, and blocked it.
It took a minute to uninstall the Firewall, and the torrent of connections nearly overwhelmed the router. But all is good now, so I am happy.
Mcafee… you let me down.
Posted by Doc Winters on February 2, 2009
I’ve been using Windows 7 for around a month, and I have already been affected by a major issue that only with the help of the excellent guys and gals of the TWiT Army helped me work out, though in the end I ended up figuring out what had happened.
Ever since I had installed Windows 7, I noticed that each Microsoft service I had on the computer, (Updates, Zune Marketplace, Messenger [though it wasn’t actually working anyway due to a compatibility issue]), automatically timed out, or report that there was no internet connection, even if everything else on my notebook would connect with no problem. Being under the bane of Telstra, and experiencing more or less the same situation so I thought that it was the case, we had reached our cap and Telstra had stalled our service, and I passed it off as that.
That was the case until the first of the month came around and nothing seemed to have been rectified, I did some looking, and online resources didn’t tell me anything I needed to know. Considering that Windows 7 is in Beta, I figured it might have been a regional issue, or just 7 having a hissy fit. I went to the TWiT chatroom, to see if anyone else was experiencing the same problem. At the same point I was trying to figure out what was going on with Messenger’s continual crashing at start up, McAfee’s detection protocols failing to update, and Update timing out.
After a process of elimination, aided by MirandaJanell, David522, and troubled among others, I narrowed the issue down to McAfee, the virus scan I get for free thanks to my father. In my research I discovered that McAfee, like a number of other anti-virus companies; were not compatible with the browser, but when the final release client comes out they will support it.
It turns out that McAfee’s Firewall was looking at the Windows 7 codes, that came whenever a Microsoft service tried to contact the internet as an unknown process, and blocked it.
It took a minute to uninstall the Firewall, and the torrent of connections nearly overwhelmed the router. But all is good now, so I am happy.
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