Windows Security Update

I have XP Professional with SP1 and was able with LeechFTP to upload and
publish my web pages to my hosting company no problem. Then inexplicably this
all changed on the 15th of February and I have since been unable to update my
Customer web pages with either LeechFTP, Filezilla or CoreFTP. After
investigation it appears I have received three security updates on the date
everything stopped working. (I was getting a socket error) When I removed the
SECURITY UPDATES (KB 944533 & 943055 & 946026) I still was unable to upload
my web pages. But low and behold if I drop my firewall everything is now
working. In terms of a security update this is a bit of a disaster and the
changes in my firewall appear irreparable. Is there any way I can operate
without disabling my firewall?

Yes Thanks for the suggestion but LeechFTP and the other FTP products are
named exceptions in the Firewall. However they still do not work!

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> did you check to make sure your programs are ALLOWED through the firewall.
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> mikeyhsd.RemoveThis@sprintpcs.com
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> "John Watt" <JohnWatt.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:281FF720-0453-4753-8FDB-C1FE66F1F4FB@microsoft.com...
> I have XP Professional with SP1 and was able with LeechFTP to upload and
> publish my web pages to my hosting company no problem. Then inexplicably this
> all changed on the 15th of February and I have since been unable to update my
> Customer web pages with either LeechFTP, Filezilla or CoreFTP. After
> investigation it appears I have received three security updates on the date
> everything stopped working. (I was getting a socket error) When I removed the
> SECURITY UPDATES (KB 944533 & 943055 & 946026) I still was unable to upload
> my web pages. But low and behold if I drop my firewall everything is now
> working. In terms of a security update this is a bit of a disaster and the
> changes in my firewall appear irreparable. Is there any way I can operate
> without disabling my firewall?