Hello:
I've had older Maxima version on my computer (about 2 years back) and it worked with ZoneAlarm free firewall and Norton Antivirus/Internet
security. My system: WinXP 32-bit Home Edition service pack 3; AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+, 2.2 GHz, 3 GB RAM.
Unfortunately, I've uninstalled it in order to try the latest 5.23.2 version.
Now, wxMaxima and XMaxima can not connect to Maxima.
I've uninstalled ZoneAlarm and changed the DEP settings, but it didn't help. However, another CAS, Euler, which uses Maxima,
started to connect with it's own Maxima - ZoneAlarm removal had helped. I've returned the DEP settings to default. I installed
the newest Euler version to be able to use Maxima, but it is not the latest Maxima.
Whatever the reason for not be able to connect to Maxima, there is another serious problem:
wxMaxima creates 21 temporary files in c:/Temp directory, when it tries to connect to Maxima. Norton antivirus detects the attempts
of the program modules to connect to the Internet and asks for permission. The problem is that the temporary files have different names
every time you run wxMaxima (file names are like this: TCLXXX.tmp, where XXX are digits or A,B,C,D). It will be always a problem. It is
very time consuming to manually remove all those temporary file names from the Norton's trusted submodules list, as you can do it only one-by-one, clicking on the file name and waiting ~3-4 seconds to delete it. If you run wxMaxima several times, the list grows very quickly.
The temporary files disappear from the C:/Temp directory after wxMaxima is closed. Therefore, I suppose, it is easy to fix the problem by
using fixed file names every time.
DG