Re: *&#$ AOL

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:26:08 -0500

Same question as to Eliyahu--did you try using a multi-client chat program
like Gaim or Trillian rather than dealing with AIM?

You can't change what the guvmint chooses to put on their computers, but you
can choose what you put on yours. You don't need AIM to chat with someone
using AIM. 

-- 
Sheila
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"Ed Chait" <edchait4@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:309u35F2st6u7U1@uni-berlin.de...
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> "Jan Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:B3Ond.568$Ek5.476@newsfe11.lga.highwinds-media.com...
> >
>
> >
> > They do it even if you aren't an AOL subscriber.  I have a cousin who's
> > an AOL customer, and when I update my AIM (Installed only to chat with
> > her), it insists on installing adware, "sign up for AOL" icons on my
> > program file and desktop, and who knows what else deep in the system.
> > If I can ever get her to upgrade to a real ISP, I plan to go through my
> > system and root out every vestige of AOL's crap.
> >
> > Eliyahu
> >
>
>
> I grudgingly installed AIM in order to be able to chat with my son.  All
the
> Air Force pc's seem to have AIM already installed, so it was the obvious
> choice.
>
> I carefully selected or deselected the options that would give me the
> smallest and least invasive install.  After I'm done, I got some new icons
> on my desktop and AIM loads every time I start Windows:).  I look through
> the preferences and there is no option anywhere for "start with Windows"
or
> not.
>
> So I googled the issue and found out that if you choose to make AIM your
> default messenger/chat program, which seems like an innocent enough choice
> on install if it's going to be your only messenger program, it will
> configure itself to load at Windows startup.  I went back into the options
> and unchecked the default chat box and that fixed it.
>
> So I guess AOL thinks that I must want every default program in my pc to
> load at startup:).
>
> Rat bastards.
>
> ed
>
>
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