Title: Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
Im not sure outrage is the appropriate way to describe this. AOL is probably looking at this from the support point of view.
They get a certain number of support calls complaining about messenger service spam/trickery. The will get many fewer
At 11:13 AM 10/23/2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
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?
Interesting question from several angles. Here's the flip side. Our
corporate IT department likes
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Fred Baker wrote:
Personally, I don't ask my ISP or my IT department to randomly change the
configuration of my computer. I am very happy for them to suggest changes,
but *if* I agree, *I* want to install them when it is convenient for *me*,
not when it is convenient for
I agree that changing one's computer is not the ISP or even the Corp IT departments
job, and could compromise valuable work and or personal information for the individual
user, depending on their setup, security software etc and other applications.
I also would preceive that as a real threat to
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
b. Disable file/printer sharing
That roots MSDE, and it's not an even vaguely obvious connection between the
two. That's one of the problems with fiddling with Windows - screwing with
one thing often breaks something apparently totally unrelated.
I believe this has resulted in a few lawsuits from companies such as Gator,
which take offense to their adware being removed by the ISP... Of
course, 99% of the time it's installed via a click-wrap EULA for some 3rd
party software such as Kazaa. It would be just as easy to uninstall it via
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
Microsoft has asked ISPs to make changes on its behalf, such as enabling
the XP firewall. But is it wise for an ISP to change the settings on
a user's computer? If Microsoft is reluctant to make the changes itself,
what problems is the ISP
-Original Message-
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?
I've already seen an interesting side effect from a disabled messenger
service... With one of those
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:22, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
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
Most ISPs don't provide users with a heavy-duty client that
replaces or patches lots of the operating system's functions,
though may will offer friendly customized browsers for
users who want them, and a few misguided carriers will
provide drivers for PPPoE or other evil excuses for protocols
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote:
Most ISPs don't provide users with a heavy-duty client that
replaces or patches lots of the operating system's functions,
though may will offer friendly customized browsers for
users who want them, and a few misguided carriers will
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
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?
Sounds good to me. The
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
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
This is a nice thing, but I recall some
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?
Sounds good to me. The potential for these users
to be less-than-educated enough about the existance of
this feature means
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?
Thankfully our focus is hosting Colo, not access, so our pool is
smaller and (theoretically) smarter. However this hasn't stopped us
from
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Terry Baranski wrote:
:The without notice part is perhaps somewhat unsettling. I can
:appreciate that attempting to explain this type of change to the AOL
:user base would be challenging, but I'd submit that third-party software
:making OS changes like this without the
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