well today i just recieved my laptop from the HP service in kuwait and the first thing i did was uninstall symantec because i just recently bought mcafee 2008 protection and fortunately everything is going great but i discovered that my programs do not connect to the net ( eg. mcafee registration, msn messenger etc ), i looked up on the net... and they all said that i should allow my msn, i did but still doesnt work, i used tools>internet options> connections> LAN settings and set it to a auto detect.... but it still doesnt work... so help... i would really appriciate it

Edit: i followed these steps a. REGSVR32 softpub.dll

b. REGSVR32 wintrust.dll

c. REGSVR32 initpki.dll

d. REGSVR32 Rsaenh.dll

e. REGSVR32 Mssip32.dll

f. REGSVR32 Cryptdlg.dll

g. REGSVR32 Dssenh.dll

h. REGSVR32 Gpkcsp.dll

i. REGSVR32 Slbcsp.dll

j. REGSVR32 Sccbase.dll
and i activated the security things from Run
and everythings ok

"...the first thing i did was uninstall symantec..."

How did you uninstall Symantec? Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs?

Did you use the Norton Removal Tool?
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...05033108162039