To fattomm ..

I would not run a downloaded .exe just like that if it did not come from Nokia. And I always have Symantec Antivirus running on my laptop, even if I were that stupid !

Okay .. so I did not think it was connecting anywhere either, because if it was at all, it should have been able to ( just like Yahoo messenger is able to ) - so now that that is out of the way ..what more do I need to do on XP ? I did a netstat with the converter running and nothing is listening on port 1234 . So looks like when the exe comes up, it is not able to open a listening port . What could be the reasons for that ? What could I check? As I already mentioned, the Windows firewall has already been given an 'exception' for the application, and I do have admin rights on my laptop