[Coco] OT: Yahoo IM update changing browser & search engine preferences.

[theother_bob]

----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:46:36 PM
Subject: [Coco] OT: Yahoo IM update changing browser & search engine preferences.


Sorry for the OT post, but I know there are a lot of 
people on the list who use Yahoo and therefore may be 
using Yahoo's IM client.  I recently made a post to a 
astronomy list on Yahoo that I am the moderator of, 
suggesting people read the article I had read regarding 
Yahoo IM auto-update changing their browser and search 
engine preferences and suggesting an alternative to YIM. 
This email was intended for the benefit of the list 
members.  The email was tagged as spam by Yahoo, and as 
moderator I had to approve my own posting.

I don't want to start a debate on this list, but I do 
caution people about using the auto-update feature with 
YIM.
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Well I for one don't allow auto-updates to run (except AVG, by my choice). I will update when *I* choose, period!  Whenever possible I use MSCONFIG to disable any autoupdaters as well as so-called "quick-start" apps that run on startup and may or may not put an icon beside the clock on the taskbar, but always result in a loss of system resources and longer startup time. Probably 80% of Windows' bad reputation is the direct result of bad software written by third parties.

cheers,
Bob

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