I can no longer get to my newsgroups because Live Mail says it cannot connect to the internet, possibly due to antivirus program or firewall.  I turned off anti virus and still can't connect.   I checked firewall and Live Mail is being given permission to connect.  Also, Live Mail  DOES download my email;  it is only the newsgroups that are causing problems.  This occurred with Microsoft newsgroups as well as my other newsgroup.  How can I correct this?  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no difference.  I also created a new user account and I still have the problem with that account.  Please help.  I don't want to reinstall my entire OS if possible.

I have no problem on my laptop connecting with WLM and have similar settings on both,

Thanks.

(I have corrected this problem).  I was notified of several replies, but none showed up when  I went to the post, so I thought I would just edit to thank everyone.  A reply to my next post was the answer.  I had entered the port number incorrectly. )