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AOL quietly changes Windows settings to combat pop-up spam
Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press 2003-10-23

Even more annoying than junk e-mail are all the spam messages that "pop up" through a little-used feature in Windows. As part of its spam-fighting efforts, America Online has been turning off that feature for its customers without telling them.

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AOL quietly changes Windows settings to combat pop-up spam 2003-10-24
Anonymous
They are lying when they say they have not had complaints. I just fixed a computer today that was acting up because of the script they run that uses remote call procedures to turn off Windows Messenger. The script kept trying to run remotely, but kept crashing my staff member's system. I finally ha...

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