thinwallet

Hi!

Once upon a time I had AOL, but have long since cleared my harddrive, and gotten a new OS. I use AOL's Aim only, and it's free email to use aside from my usual SBC/Yahoo browser.

The other day I got a popup that says: Active Update, Security Update Critical. AOL has identified a security vulnerability .........(it is update #4194.13.4) Thinking it had to do with Aim, I started downloading it, but it said that it was installing AOL!! NO WAY, JOSE!! I stopped it, but it reappears about every 15 minutes!!! WHAT is UP with this nonsense?? How do I get rid of it? I cannot find a way to contact AOL unless I was a member!

Thank you!

Snoopdogie187

I am pretty sure that update has some errors in it. I have windows Vista and i have aol and aim both installed on it, it is a brand new computer and aol was always crashing after installng that update, aim was fine though. My mom has Windows XP Pro and she is having probles since that update. We both uninstalled it and i have no problems but i do keep getting that message. I am not sure if they fixed the problem with the update though.
Also it might not be installing aol, they seem to have been combining aim and aol, since like aim 6 i think, i had aim 6 on win XP and it was doing something with aol. They may just be trying to create a more common name for themselves or something, not really sure. If it is still supported you can run an older aim for yourself, if there is nothing you needed in the newer versions. I always kept the older one till i got Vista (afraid of having problems with older software)

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NYCLatinLefty

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The AOL Security Update does not install AOL onto your computer.

For more information you can go to:

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?encquery=e01d3665039b16661a930d8aecc75562ef1e5985017645d4&invocationType=keyword_rollover&ie=UTF-8

It seems that many AOL users and AIM users are having questions concerning this popup.




Good Luck . . .