[64444] in North American Network Operators' Group
AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 24 00:14:42 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:13:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Without notice AOL has been modifying the operating system settings of
users with AOL software installed on Windows computers. Although
complaints about Windows' Messenger pop-up spam continue to grow, few
users bother to turn off the Windows' Messenger service. Starting two
weeks ago AOL used the self-updating machanism in AOL's software to
turn-off the Windows' Messenger service. AOL has turned it off on
15 million users computers so far.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7278
How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their
connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's
Windows computers?
