Webcam chats with windows users

I have been trying to chat with a friend of mine using webcams and first we thought the problem was that her computer was treating the ichat invitation as an intruder. Now she has set her virus protection to accept me but every time we connect, ichat immediately shuts off.

Hi Elsbels,
Tell us a bit more about what XP version she is on ?
What App she is using ?
What she has done to set up the XP Firewall ?
What she has done to allow AIM Video through her Modem ?
See also here http://www.mvldesign.com/videoconferencetutorial.html
Shorter stuff here http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page12.html See second part for XP Firewall if at Service Pack 2
9:42 PM Tuesday; December 12, 2006

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