Some firewalls remember the actual program that you told it was allowed to use the network protocols. When you update to SR3, even though you know it's still Poser, the firewall thinks it's a different program PRETENDING to be Poser. It knows that it is different software.

You have to tell your firewall that the new version of Poser is OK. Go into its config dialog and find the part about individual applications and make it know about the new version. I can't tell you how, nor why you should have to. But that's what needs to be done.

A little note - in this forum every person who ever had a problem with anything gets to declare it to be a piece of shit. Meanwhile, 299,000 other people think the upgrade is a good thing and have no problems.

Everybody has a right to an opinion I suppose, even ones that make little sense except to the person who has that opinion.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)