Socket Error: Permission Denied

Stephen Hansen apt.shansen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 10:59:13 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, W. eWatson <wolftracks at invalid.com> wrote:

> I'm using McAffee. I see it was pythonw.exe blocked in red. There are
> several choices: Allow Access, Allow Outboubnd only
> Block (current), Remove Prgrm permission, Learn More.
>
> Outbound only seem reasonable, but why does the blocking keep returning
> every many hours, or maybe when I reboot, which I've done several times
> today?


I can't help you with McAfee, contact their support forums.

As for outbound vs anything else... pythonw.exe needs to accept connections
at least on the local machine. No idea how to get McAfee to allow that.
Outbound may not be sufficient, you may need just Allow.

--S
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