AOL Sucks
My friend recently recieved a laptop and noticed it ran slower everytime he used it. I installed Microsoft's Anti Spyware Beta (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en) and ran a scan.
After removing the problems it found, we decided to go to microsoft to search for updates. Unfortunately for my friend, his household uses AOL dial-up. We figured that would manage and signed in. After suffering the painfully long sign in and the disturbingly annoying sounds we were connected. Just as i was typing "Microsoft.Com" into the address bar, Anti Spyware picked up 10 new programs trying to upload themselves to the machine.
I use NTL broardband and Mozilla's Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/) and have never had anything try to install it's self...
In addition to this, I noticed that AOL's browser is very glitchy and behaves much in the same way as an experiment using Delphi's browser component I performed a couple of weeks ago.
After removing the problems it found, we decided to go to microsoft to search for updates. Unfortunately for my friend, his household uses AOL dial-up. We figured that would manage and signed in. After suffering the painfully long sign in and the disturbingly annoying sounds we were connected. Just as i was typing "Microsoft.Com" into the address bar, Anti Spyware picked up 10 new programs trying to upload themselves to the machine.
I use NTL broardband and Mozilla's Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/) and have never had anything try to install it's self...
In addition to this, I noticed that AOL's browser is very glitchy and behaves much in the same way as an experiment using Delphi's browser component I performed a couple of weeks ago.
posted by DMP at 12:48 pm
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