McAfee firewall and FTM 2006

[Sue from Southend]

We recently installed McAfee and now I can't use the WebSearch on FTM it keeps telling me that the system is behind a Firewall. We've adjusted the settings to allow full acces for FTM and still no joy. Has anyone got any bright ideas what to do next?

Thanks

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

You might need to disable the firewall while searching, also some routers as well as IE have a firewall that might be affecting the searches.

For what use i get from the web searches i don't even bother, married names for females, mistranscriptions in the index etc, i find that it only gives me a 10% success rate so i search manually.

It's not as if it merges the info anyway, so i wonder what the point of it is most of the time.

[Sue from Southend]

I don't use it often Glen, but it does sometimes throw up something I've missed!

I think the problem is with McAfee as I've never had trouble before... If the only way round it is to disable the Firewall I probably won't bother as I'm positive that I'd forget to turn it back on which kind of defeats the object!!

Thanks any way Glen

[Jill on the A272]

This has happened to me too in the last 24hrs with AVG, not that I use the search facility much.

[Cloggie]

I wonder if it's an issue with FTM rather than the firewall software? I'm getting the same message today, yet I've never had it before, and haven't changed anything in my firewall settings.

EDIT: I've closed and reopened FTM and suddenly it's working fine again.

[Sue from Southend]

Well yesterday when I started this thread we had done all the changes and restarted the PC etc and it wasn't working. This morning it's fine and my son has looked at some other forum and it is apparently an intermittent problem with FTM - it would seem to be just a coincidence that I had just loaded McAfee!

Thanks for everyone's input. At least we know now that it's happening :D