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jonathanp1
12 Jul 2008, 23:39
I'm playing Worms Armadeddon and have been trying to get onto WormNet for the first time but whenever i log in I always immediately get "Connection failed".
I log in as per the instructions I have read, putting a username in and selecting auto login. Or using the other way of putting a random username in and logging in, both do the same.
From reading various threads, I have also opened up ports 6667 and 17011 but to no avail. The only firewall I have running in Windows Firewall, which I have allowed Worms to bypass, I also turned the firewall off just to see but got the same problem.
It seems as though the connection is failing straight away, can anyone here think of anything else to try?
Thanks!

KRD
13 Jul 2008, 12:31
Tell us a bit about your anti-virus software. Some of those have a silly safety measure turned on by default that outright blocks anything going on on port 6667.
Because IRC is evil or something. :eek:

jonathanp1
13 Jul 2008, 13:36
Brilliant! I disabled the IRC part on McAfee and it worked straight away. Thanks for your help.

Muzer
13 Jul 2008, 15:22
Paid for AntiVirus programs = a load of ****. Get AVG Free (http://free.avg.com).

bonz
14 Jul 2008, 11:11
Or get Avast! (http://www.avast.at/download.htm)

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