Cannot connect to anything

[TankTarget]

Yes my mom just got a massively stupendous computer. Except for the part where it comes with Vista and a bunch of programs we know little about.

However, all is well...for the most part. I can play Freelancer perfectly fine, but! I cannot connect to any server. The connection is being blocked by a program on the computer.

AND before anyone asks, yes this is using the administrator account, without user account control, windows defender is not online, neither is spy sweeper. McAffee has Freelancer as allowed on the firewall. So does anyone know of why FL would not be able to connect to a server? I can get the global server and the server list. I hit connect and I immediately get the message. "You cannot connect, server may be down, restarting" blah