Tags Activation Error Messages Failed. "Activation module failed to connect to http://www.giveawayoftheday.com. Software activation is not possible at the moment. Please try again later or check your firewall settings."
I think it would be helpful to list the error messages that downloaders might encounter and what the possible fixes would be. I had to spend a lot of time wandering through the forums trying to find answers to the above error message and still did not get anything definitive. This particular message does seem to occur often and is particularly frustrating to neos.
In my own case I was working over the phone to help my daughter download and activate on her VistaBasic machine after I successfully activated on XPHome and VistaPrem. It took a lot of redials as I searched GAOTD forums for help and tried different things. A simple list of rated problems and fixes would have made it a lot faster.