Problem Shared Music

Hi,
The Shared Music option in iTunes is not working when using Norton Antivirus from Google Updater. I mailt Norton but they can't help me. I don't know which option to select/deselect in Norton Antivirus. Tried them all but not a result. I can see other Libraries but other Libraries can't see mee. This is not really an iTunes problem but it's worth trying
Can anybody help me?
Regards,
Pim

yeah i have the same problem. I am hoping by me replying to this that hopefully someone who knows how to figure this out will acrtually write something. I think the more replies the higher it goes up in the search, it is really ******* me off. I have a mac mini that i use purely to play wirelessly from my iMac but now it has just started doing what you described. Someone reply with an answer....

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