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I've been having a problem with Minecraft that won't let me play (It won't verify my username & password?)

Yesterday it wouldn't let me play online despite the fact that I had a 5-bar connection. I deleted Minecraft and downloaded it and now it can't verify my username and password? When I type them in it says:

"Sorry, but we couldn't connect to our servers. Please make sure that you are online and Minecraft is not blocked (SocketExeption: Permission denied: connect)"

The white page reads:

Bootstrap started (v5)
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: 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:82)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:361)

Please fix the error and restart.

My CPU:

Windows 8
Minecraft launcher 1.3.8
Minecraft 1.7.4
Empty .Minecraft folder (why?)

I've Tried:

Letting Minecraft through McAfee
Deleting and re-downloading Minecraft
Updating Java
Uninstalling and reinstalling Java

please respond

Okay end of day 1 with no response :/

It just broke after I installed the new java, I've been having no problems for over a year.

I don't really want to get viruses, is there any way to let only Minecraft through?

Umm I went to the McAfee page and turned the firewall off and Minecraft works fine - is there any way to let Minecraft work without turning off the firewall?

I let Minecraft, Java, and Javaw through the firewall - and it works! Thank you so much!