Re: AOL

Jeff:

Messing with your DUN settings only occurs if you elect the installation
option to make AOL your default internet connection and/or browser.
However, some very "mysterious" things occur on many machines when AOL is
installed.

Fred Langa from Windows Magazine has an excellent article detailing exactly
what AOL does to a machine when installed:

http://www.winmag.com/columns/explorer/2000/02.htm for the first article

http://www.winmag.com/columns/explorer/2000/03.htm for the second article

Hope this answers your questions...

- Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bonner" <cyberhq(at)idt.net>
To: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: AOL


> FWIW to anyone else, do NOT install the latest version (5) of AOL.  It has
> been jokingly described by many people as having the same characteristics
> of a virus or trojan, but that isn't too far off.  In true, arrogant AOL
> style, it muscles its way through your dial-up networking and can
> effectively disable any other connections you might have.  There also
> appear to be many other bugs and inconsistencies, a la software released
> before its time.
>

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