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Subscribe to commentsceeFeb 12th 2009 6:13PM
I dpwnloaded adawaqre last time AOL had this advixce. It is a bad program that you can;t get rid of, not a virus but DO NOT use it if my experience was any indication. Everytime I ran my Mcafee scan it picked up adware Pro, in the last time they gave this advice, and had to remove it as spyware.
LoraFeb 13th 2009 11:07PM
Aol. Is my first problem, Anythime I down load something new they tell me 25 times, to download, my computer freezes up and or Aol's program clashes with somethin I already have and the computer crashes.
carolFeb 13th 2009 11:45AM
Honestly I would not still have aol if I didnt need to keep my emaill address.,
melissaFeb 12th 2009 7:37PM
it's funny that the article mentions using avg anti-virus to fix your computer. i downloaded a virus that totally froze my whole computer, just wiped out the whole thing. there was just one screen with big red letters and guess what it said, avg anti-virus over and over and over. it was the only website i could access before the whole thing froze up.
ConcernedFeb 13th 2009 4:29PM
AVG figure it out?
It can't figure out that it is running with a date months in advance from now, which began with a recent update. Again and again, it just continues to report everything is fine and that there are no problems...on its own screen that clearly shows its own problems immediately next to that - yet, nothing is wrong?
How can it find anything else that shouldn't be on my computer when it can't even connect that there is a very concerning issue with itself?
So far nothing I have done is fixing that it reporting it is forever scanning (never finishing) for a date in April 2009, as if every day is THAT day?
And every time I fill out something like this, trying to fix it, I wind up with dozens of emails wanting to sell me "enhancements."
jimFeb 14th 2009 3:59PM
excellent suite of basic computer maintenance tools to clean up and improve sub-par comoputer performance......probably $1,000.00
worth of programs here.....thanks to Switched and AOL.....
billFeb 17th 2009 10:47AM
aol software on my computer does not work very well and i think it is a bad investment.
billFeb 17th 2009 11:04AM
i have had nothing but trouble with my aol software for weeks now i tried everything customer support reccomended, even reinstalling the software and it says aol (not responding) i cancelled my service but they ironically bill me the same day i cancel. there should be a class action lawsuit against them if many other people are experiencing what i am.
GeneFeb 17th 2009 12:33PM
Re: Carol you don't need AOL just download
firefox and you can get all your email off it.
Good luck.
salFeb 17th 2009 2:27PM
wow this is strange, as soon as I started reading about how to speed up my computer.........it's slowing down. weird????