Re: Access to Network and Dial-Up Connections blocked

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One of the things I did was download and install the IBM hidden restore
partition, which was not on the machine. That could be the culprit.


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Did you by any chance recently upgrade, change or add security
software
to your machine? New or different AntiVirus or Firewall or other
security suite? These applications now often disable some of those
things without alerting the users. Also make sure that you have no
virus or other malware on the machine.

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