paultugwell wrote:

> Thanks for your help everybody. eventually found out that it was Norton
> firewall that was causing the problem. We don't normally use the Norton
> firewall and unlike most of the others we use, it doesn't prompt you to
> allow a connection when a program is updated.

Yet another intrusive 'protection' system :(
I've killed Norton on several machines now and replaced it with kaspersky -
amazing improvement in the machines performance!

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