Guest guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Hi , I have had limited experience with AOL because the only time I use it is when I'm out of town visiting my family that uses AOL. But, I can tell you that I don't like it :-) My experience has been that users either love or hate AOL - personal preference. Your problem sounds like you're infected with a virus. Do you run anti-virus software? If so, you should make sure your updates are current and run a scan on your hard drive. If you don't have anti virus software, I strongly suggest that you get it. Especially by being on lists such as this, you are vulnerable to virus attacks. Now, I'm not saying that anyone on the list would intentionally try to infect your computer. What I am saying is that by being on the list, you are exposed to many users who may not know they are infected and can innocently pass the virus along to you and anyone else on the list. Your best bet for anti virus protection is to be very selective about attachments you open. I only open those who come from people I know very closely and I always scan them one more time before I open them, just to make sure (even the ones from family). I'm surprised that the people at AOL didn't bring this up when your mom called them! I have a dialup account with Strato Net. They have service throughout the country, but you'll need to check your local area at www.strato.net to see if there's a local number for you. Although I have a cable connection, I keep this account as a back up in case the cable goes down. I have had a very good experience with them - they're up consistently and tech support is always available by phone. Hope this helps and good luck! Kef At 11:05 PM 5/24/2002 -0400, lilone9919@... wrote: >Ok Everyone, > > I have a question for all of you. We have AOL and we are constantly > having >the same problems. For instance tonight I was online checking my email. I >never open any ads or emails from people I dont know, when all of a sudden my >computer froze. So I opened AOL back up after closing it down only to find >out that my password wouldnt work. Well since my mother is the account holder >she had to make the phone call to the troubleshooter. They told her that >while I was online my screen name sent out 2000 emails in like 2 minutes. >That has happened to my sister 3 or 4 times. We are getting sick of it and >are thinking about canceling it. > Ok my question is, 1) what internet servers do you have, 2) do you have >problems like this, 3) for those of you who have AOL too, do you have these >same problems? > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 That is because you are either using 6.0 or 7.0 Neither of them are good! Everyone I know who uses those two program have problems. My suggestion to you is to Unistall both of those if you have both. And Reinstall either 4.0 or 5.0 I also know of some other techinical problems you may be having...and if you want help...email me and i'll walk you through them. You will also want to update your Virus scanner...and run it. a > Ok Everyone, > > I have a question for all of you. We have AOL and we are constantly having > the same problems. For instance tonight I was online checking my email. I > never open any ads or emails from people I dont know, when all of a sudden my > computer froze. So I opened AOL back up after closing it down only to find > out that my password wouldnt work. Well since my mother is the account holder > she had to make the phone call to the troubleshooter. They told her that > while I was online my screen name sent out 2000 emails in like 2 minutes. > That has happened to my sister 3 or 4 times. We are getting sick of it and > are thinking about canceling it. > Ok my question is, 1) what internet servers do you have, 2) do you have > problems like this, 3) for those of you who have AOL too, do you have these > same problems? > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 My answer to your questions, #1 and #2 are as follows,,first off I use a local internet provider,which i have no issues with at all, and second off, I will never use aol, there has always been issues with it, for one thing you can not get it off your system with out calling them and having them remove it, as long as it's installed into your system. and aol is like having a virus on your system also, every technician that i have ever worked with does not like aol, and will never use it. When i was a technician i had lots of customers call, who had aol and wanted to switch to qwest, which is where i worked, and they wanted aol off their computer, but we could not do so, aol tech support has to unistall it. I hope this helps a little bit. Dede --- quartznh <quartznh@...> wrote: > That is because you are either using 6.0 or 7.0 > > Neither of them are good! Everyone I know who uses > those two program > have problems. > My suggestion to you is to Unistall both of those if > you have both. > And Reinstall either 4.0 or 5.0 > > I also know of some other techinical problems you > may be having...and > if you want help...email me and i'll walk you > through them. > > You will also want to update your Virus > scanner...and run it. > > a > > > > > Ok Everyone, > > > > I have a question for all of you. We have AOL > and we are > constantly having > > the same problems. For instance tonight I was > online checking my > email. I > > never open any ads or emails from people I dont > know, when all of a > sudden my > > computer froze. So I opened AOL back up after > closing it down only > to find > > out that my password wouldnt work. Well since my > mother is the > account holder > > she had to make the phone call to the > troubleshooter. They told her > that > > while I was online my screen name sent out 2000 > emails in like 2 > minutes. > > That has happened to my sister 3 or 4 times. We > are getting sick of > it and > > are thinking about canceling it. > > Ok my question is, 1) what internet servers do > you have, 2) do > you have > > problems like this, 3) for those of you who have > AOL too, do you > have these > > same problems? > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 from Michigan wrote: >He () > called Bright House and told them that they owe him a favor an! d they > fixed my computer today (Wednesday) halleluah! right on! it helps to know the right people. im glad that everything is fixed now and you are back online, jen! :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Hey all, Just to let you know apparently Netscape has had a major outage. As of right now I belive they are up and running, but I'm having computer problems. Releasing messages may be a little slow. Thanks, KC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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