WoW – the Fix
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did.
In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, (just type “services” in the blank box after you click Start), I disabled the Comodo Pro service, which didn’t uninstall when I uninstalled Comodo initially. Then went to Comodo‘s website to download the Comodo Pro Firewall 3.0, which is nice and free.
After I installed it, restarted, and absently clicked Launcher.exe (news didn’t load) and then Play, typed my login and pass, clicked a bunch of Accepts under Comodo, and suddenly it authenticated. I almost cried. Whether of joy or frustration, I did not care. All that mattered was I was suddenly downloading the latest 3.0 patch (which I would have had to anyway today).
Still am. And maybe sometime tomorrow, I’ll be back in Dragonblight, cruising the land of Feralas where I last left off. Thought I’d uninstall Comodo after cos of the conflicts but then decided to keep it, cos it is pretty and the problem was really my own faulty config.
Now, if only I can drag myself off to bed. But that Blizzard downloader is mighty hypnotizing to watch.
Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
