Either IDLE Can't Start a subprocess or a firewall software firewall is blocking the connection (Win)--Battlin McAfee

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* W. eWatson:
> See Subject msg from Python 2.5 Win XP. It is preceded by a "Socket 
> Error". It happened while I had a simple program displayed, and I wanted 
> to see the shell. The msg occurred when I pressed Shell on Run from the 
> menu. I played around for awhile, but got nowhere. Same msg. I did 
> remove my McAfee firewall protection, and it worked once, but reverted 
> to not working.
> 
> I rebooted and the first time I could use Shell, it succeeded. After 
> that it failed. Comments? Geeze! Mcaffe turned on the firewall again 
> after the reboot.
> 
> All seems well now. Nope. McAfee turned the firewall back on. It decided 
> to warn me it was off, but now has allowed me to ignore the fact it is 
> "no longer protecting me". I'll just let Win firewall do that, thank you.
> 
> Nope it's back. I'll just stop here and let anyone who wants to just 
> chime in. If I get it to stop, I'll be back.

I recall vaguely some similar problem caused by a program attempting to connect 
to localhost, and the solution then was to edit the hosts file (don't ask me for 
details, but perhaps that'll help you search: that problem had entirely to do 
with Windows' very over-zealous "security" measures).


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf