What should I do with my firewall settings?

Some personal firewall products don't play nicely with the built in security features of our site. The easiest way to resolve this problem is to add www.nanowrimo.org to the list of trusted or permitted sites in your personal firewall settings.

If you are using Norton Internet Security, or Norton Personal Firewall, please follow these instructions to add nanowrimo to the permitted list:

1. Open NIS/NPF
2. Click on "Privacy Control", then click the yellow "Configure" button in the right-hand sidebar.
3. Click "Advanced"
4. Click "Add Site" and type "www.nanowrimo.org" in the dialog box that appears
5. In both the Global Settings and User Settings boxes, uncheck the boxes, and change the settings to "Permit"
6. Click "OK" and close NIS/NPF

(Thanks to RedBearOC for these instructions!)

If you are using Internet Explorer, you may also need to add www.nanowrimo.org to the Trusted Sites list in IE:

1. Go to Tools> Internet Options> Security Tab
2. Click on the green checkmark (Trusted Sites)
3. Click on the Sites button to see the list of trusted sites
4. Another dialogue box comes up to allow you to add www.nanowrimo.org

(Thanks to Cybele for these instructions!)