Nutscrape 6.1 & AOL poking at my ports

[pqwabbit]

if you use a personal firewall like ZoneAlarm and Netscape 6 do you notice that you now have a whole lot more alerts that block AOL from accessing your machine?

hmmmm..I don't like that. I'm already not thrilled with 6.1. I don't like the coincidental AOL trying alot to access my machine. ~#

hmmm no wait I phrased that wrong - my computer is attempting to contact AOL - that is sometign I never saw before netscape 6 double bleh!

But yeh AOL is trying to connect more when I use it as well


Lea

[sheila]

I saw a discussion about this on the Netscape newsgroups. Someone suggested turning of the "My sidebar" and that seemed to help?

[0degree]

Welcome to the world of AOL :disagree:

Tony.
- AOL is like wine, the older it gets, the better it is. But too much of it will make you throw up.

[teach1st]

I had this difficulty after installing AOL for a trial period and then trying to uninstall it. ZoneAlarm reported that my computer continued to try to access the AOL proxy, even after uninstall. Try a search for "aol" - you may get a bunch of aol*.dll's flung around. Put them in a safe place (out of the system folder) and reboot.

Doing this, and subsequently deleting the *.dll's didn't affect AIM at all ~ for me, at least.

[pqwabbit]

Alas, Netscape 6.1 still stinks so bad I am giving up on it for now, and when it instaklled I didn;t liek that it left short cuts to aol all over the place and every time I ran it it wanted me to do the netcenter idenity thing and all this and automitcally added my netscape email to the email folders, adn all I ever get in that account is literlaly 100;s of spams. I have not even visitd that account in like a year, and don't wish to.

6.0 blew but it wasn;t nearly as intrusive like that - doing things I did not want it to do with my email, and forcing me to make an aol/netscape user name in order to run it iwthout getting all teh annoying screens and hitting cancel. :waa:
yeesh

So back to 4.77
I like having my mail, news groups and browser all-in-one but that's just far too annoying. If I wanted AOL i woulda signed up with AOL ~#

Thanks. This is alwasy a good place to come for quick answers/feedback

Lea

[sheila]

Originally posted by pqwabbit:
Alas, Netscape 6.1 still stinks so bad I am giving up on it for now, and when it instaklled I didn;t liek that it left short cuts to aol all over the place and every time I ran it ...<snipped>...
6.0 blew but it wasn;t nearly as intrusive like that - doing things I did not want it to do with my email, and forcing me to make an aol/netscape user name in order to run it iwthout getting all teh annoying screens and hitting cancel. :waa:
yeesh

So back to 4.77
I like having my mail, news groups and browser all-in-one but that's just far too annoying.
Wow. I just installed 6.1 today, and am getting nothing like that. However, I didn't install the e-mail capabilities (as I use other software for that), or the AOL instant messenger. Just the browser and plug-ins. Yes, it did put a shortcut to sign up for AOL on my desktop, but I just deleted it.

I'm actually enjoying 6.1. I've made it my default browser.

[pqwabbit]

I enjoy the other handy features like the cookie manager (I am really fed up with certain cookies). When I went to download 6.1 the set up program which downloads hte components would not let me choose to not download IM and such.
hmm I'll have to run that again and see. If it would behave more like 4.77 without all that extraneous aol and IM junk I could tolerate it.
Although I can't use it to go to my work webmail account. It gets stuck in a password loop. (not that anyone should be checking work email at home on a weekend anyway!)

Ah ha! IIt was not letting me disable certain portions of the download cuz I had already installed them in an earlier version. Uninstalling 6 now allows me to use the setup utitlity and deselect those parts I don't want.

Lea