Citizen on the earth
Hello Xelestial,
From your description, I get to know that you got an exception saying "An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine" in using sockets to communicate with another application. According to my work experince, there are a couple of cases we know of which can cause them as follows:
1. If this error is being reported by your email client or by VPOP3 when downloading and/or sending email, it could be a problem with your antivirus software. Both McAfee VirusScan 8 and Norton Antivirus 2004 have been found to give these errors sometimes, but other virus scanners or versions may also cause these errors. See below for more information.
2.If the 10053 error is reported in the VPOP3 Status Monitor program, then this usually means that the VPOP3 server has stopped for some reason. It may be that it was stopped by someone else, or it may have failed with an application error.
3.The TCP/IP Connection was aborted by Windows. This was possibly due to a data transmission timeout or protocol error. The virtual circuit was terminated due to a time-out or other failure. The application should close the socket as it is no longer usable.
What I want to suggest you to do is to try to check if you have these issues in your application. If you have any questions when trying my suggestions, please let me know. Thanks.
Citizens on the earth