Unable to connect to server - Error code 800ccc0e

I have been successfully connecting to newsgroups (with McAfee antivirus
running)up until a few days ago, when I started to get the error message,
below:
Account: Bigpond
Server: localhost
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc0e

I have tried stopping McAfee from scanning emails but it made no difference.
Any advice gratefully accepted. Thanks in anticipation

Mark

That is because you need to uninstall McAfee and then re-install it without the
email integration(scanning) option. This is how you can disable the scanning option
only on McAfee . Or get rid of it completely and install something like AVG free

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Peter

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"Mark L" <Mark > wrote in message
news:81CA10F8-0C36-4C20-8C4B-...
>I have been successfully connecting to newsgroups (with McAfee antivirus
> running)up until a few days ago, when I started to get the error message,
> below:
> Account: Bigpond
> Server: localhost
> Protocol: NNTP
> Port: 119
> Secure(SSL): 0
> Code: 800ccc0e
>
> I have tried stopping McAfee from scanning emails but it made no difference.
> Any advice gratefully accepted. Thanks in anticipation
>
>
>