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I get this when I start minecraft:
Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Aug 17, 2013 2:30:10 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)


Please fix the error and restart.

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I have Java and Minecraft allowed through my firewall. I have the latest minecraft launcher and the latest java. My computer is on Windows 7. My internet connection is fine. Everything on minecraft is running fine according to http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/ and help.mojang.com. I couldn't sign into minecraft before so I deleted my .minecraft folder to see if that would help but now this is happening. After this error happened my .minecraft folder appeared but is empty. I have McAfee as my antivirus but I have been playing minecraft on my computer for over a year and McAfee has been on it the whole time. I have only recently gotten this error.

I got no response on this so I tried looking for answers somewhere else and I had an old version of java. So I deleted it and now minecraft is running fine and I even signed in perfectly so if you had the same problem go to http://www.java.com/en/download/uninstallapplet.jsp and uninstall your old java versions if you have any.