I have Mcafee fire wall and a new computer with XP and have had no trouble at all with what you are talking about. I have not had the computer 3 months yet. Did not know that XP had its own fire will. Learn something everyday. Glee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Franceschi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [COOPER] RootsWeb > I took the firewall off for the same reason. My computer tech said > there was something through Microsoft XP that had a firewall, but you > have to activate it. Since I got ride of the firewall and he activated > the XP one, I have had absolutely no problem going anywhere on the web. > And, I use Netscape and have opted to block all pop-ups. Works great. > > Lois > > > ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the COOPER list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > >