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Hmm. So I've spent the last couple hours working with Norton and even just plain turned it off, no luck. Here's what I tried: Telling norton to allow sabnzbd to use any ports 8080 to 8090. No luck there Turning off the firewall functionality of norton. Trying specific ports rather than a range. I'm ...

Yup, that's the Norton Firewall I mentioned above. I suspected that first but have opened that port (and others) in the software and even added sabnzbd as trusted software. Neither has worked, but maybe it's still some configuration issue of which I'm unaware?

Apologies for the thread repeat, but I just plain can't get past this problem. So I just installed sabnzbd on a Windows 7 machine and keep getting: SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server. Port 8080 on localhost was tried , but it is not available. Some other software uses the p...