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Aol popping up????

by savagedude_21 Sep 7, 2007 1:58PM PDT

whenever i click on some links, or navigate to a new page in IE 6, out of nowhere, AOL 9.0 starts up and logs me on...

(if it was my choice, AOL would not be on this computer)

any way to stop this? tried restart + not allowing access to AOL via program access + Defaults

oh, running XP media

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savagedude_21
by tomron Sep 8, 2007 1:15AM PDT
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by the way
by savagedude_21 Sep 8, 2007 5:54PM PDT

i mentioned i was using IE6

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reply to: Aol popping up
by caktus Sep 8, 2007 2:33AM PDT

"(if it was my choice, AOL would not be on this computer)"

Then why is AOL in the computer? Is AOL your ISP?

Charlie

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Comcast = ISP
by savagedude_21 Sep 8, 2007 5:48PM PDT

My mom uses AOL, thats it, out of the 4 people here. I took it off once, and man o man, i am not going to do that again.

i got 6 calls from her during school.

and i have a popup blocker from Symantec.

its the actual application that opens up without permision.

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Found it
by savagedude_21 Sep 11, 2007 8:33AM PDT

AOL was in my VPN connections, and all i had to do was take it out and choose never dial, and im set.

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