SP2 & MIRC

[flow]

My Pc had a balls up crash last week. i lost a partition - thankfully my programs & not my data.

Anyway, I've rebuilt it and installed SP2. I've re-installed Mirc and I can't connect. Is the firewall to blame? I've got it turned off. Is SP2 being far too smart for its own good?

Ideas? anyone done the same?

[Lord_Phat]

sp2 should only prevent inbound connections...

it uses a stateful filtering process to ensure you can do websurfing/mail/etc

i am currently running sp2, mirc works fine.. including dde after allowing mirc to listen via the annoying popup...

the only thing that springs to mind is that ident might be a problem... if you add a custom port via start=>control panel=>windows firewall=>exceptions=>add port=>port 113 TCP

that might be the issue, as the xp firewall seems to not be as brilliant as advertised (surprised?)