[pchelpers] Re: just opened AOL ater rebooting and got

Hi Arlene

> _http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/_ (http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/) 

"Got" it where? You don't say which browser opened to show that page. Is 
it IE again? If that page is not set as your start page (erroneously 
called "home page" in most browsers) in whatever browser showed it, then 
it's AOL that makes that page open up. Ask AOL what's causing this 
nonsense.

It's essentially a browser hijack, but since no criminal would make 
malware switch your start page to a Mozilla page, this is just the kind 
of thing AOL typically does with its customers; forcing them to install 
stuff they don't need and understand, having default settings they don't 
understand or can't change, doing things automagically so that they 
don't notice what they're doing or that they're doing something.

If you value your sanity and the hours of your life, it'd be best to get 
rid of AOL. Nobody here seems to use AOL, so nobody can help you with 
AOL problems. Check what you have in IE under tools < Internet options < 
general < home page.

> at delicious they still have logged in as JanieAr; don't know if this  helps, 
> I might have been looking for forums and across del.iciio.us:(

I don't know anything about that company either except that it's 
definitely not spelled that way. It also looks like a program that might 
do funny things with start pages. Do you use it and need it? Otherwise 
get rid of it. It will just take you extra time and worry to understand 
how it works and will cause you a lot of frustration and wasted time 
before that happens.

> don't know if this is Firefox or Mozilla plugin or whatever.

There is an extension for Firefox called "del.icio.us post" but i 
thought you said this was happening in IE. It's easy to see what add-ons 
you have in IE: tools < manage add-ons. And it's just as easy to see 
what extensions you have in Firefox: tools < extensions.




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