I had the same problem this is not caused by Norton it is more likely a
problem with a wireless router or dongle. I replaced my dongle with a lan
cable and everything worked fine . My router is a netgear and this appears to
be the cause .I have not yet found away round stopping this happening with
the dongle though. hope this helps.

"Tigerbob" wrote:

> I'm using ie7 on Vista with Norton Internet Security on new laptop. When ever
> I try to down load files (e.g. MS Messanger) from internet I get message
> saying "The connection to the server was rest." How do I reslove this problem?