I have a problem with disconnecting a lot on AIM. Every now and then (about every hour/half hour-ish?) AIM will randomly disconnect and reconnect. I thought it was my ISP (Comcast), but almost all of my friends use Comcast and no one else has the same problem. The weird thing is that, when I switched to GAIM temporarily, it worked fine. But I don't want to use GAIM for various reasons (mainly because I can't directly connect to anyone on it which is something I do frequently).
tl;dr How do I not disconnected on AIM?
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Anonymous2006-05-21 1:26
Are you running anything else in the background? 'Cause I know when I run Azureus, my AIM always shits out on me.
>>1
1. Stop using Internet Explorer
2. How do I ran antimalware (antivirus and antimalware; excluding Microsoft's malware removal tool which is malware in an on itself)
3. Consider GAIM over AIM
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Anonymous2006-05-21 9:06
>>3
Can't be a worm that's doing it, because it even happens on clean installs of Windows.
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Anonymous2006-05-21 9:12
>>5
1. I use Firefox.
2. I have Nod32 constantly running in the background.
3. I did, and decided I'd rather have the disconnects.
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Anonymous2006-05-21 11:51
>>6
A clean unprotected install of Windows is infected in an average of 20 minutes.
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Anonymous2006-05-21 18:33
>>8
I've seen many quicker. At the height of the Blaster situation (and for months afterwards), you could barely get a cleaned machine back onto the internet to install the patch before it fell over again. I tried the same last month with my old computer (just for kicks), and it was crawling inside of 10.
>>9 At the height of the Blaster situation (and for months afterwards), you could barely get a cleaned machine back onto the internet to install the patch before it fell over again.
It's true. Average for me was two minutes...
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Anonymous2006-05-22 2:37
I'm using the SP1 built in firewall. The old Internet Connection Firewall. Just forwarded my >10000 port for p2ps and disabled the RPC. Never been infected or updated for that matter since. Thing does its job quietly and effectively. Just in case though, I'm running Adwatch but I haven't heard from it since it asked to be updated.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 3:06
I am trying to pack the DCOM exploit (USED BY BLASTER) but the AV detectors get it, even after my elite hacks :(