Have you considered doing a System Restore back before you removed any McAfee stuff to see if you can connect. If you can then you would have more time to figure out how to get McAfee off your computer without having that problem. I also run McAfee VSO and way back when I had earlier version the uninstall was always a problem. I do know (it has been a while) I contacted a tech in a chatroom free. You might try here:
http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/default.asp...ution=1024x768 or look over the Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
If you wish to use System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...w_03may19.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...emrestore.mspx
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/res...with_syste.htm
Hope this helps...Phil