Nickname: rrobbinstx

Review: Microsoft, AOL, Google, Yahoo, should we attack all these companies? Over and over we hear about lawsuits. All the companies are in it for the money. We should have no misconception that any information they can derive from the way we use our computers or the Internet will be sold to whomever they can sell it to. Should we like it? Of course not. But we have the freedom to not use it. So I would like to see all the crybabies who want to persecute these corporations throw away their computers and cell phones and iPod's and PDA's and perhaps with the reduction in the legal fees we could pay a little less. Although once again if you don't like the price, don't get the service.

Date reviewed: Aug 24, 2006 1:46 AM

Nickname: Cyndy

Review: Be careful with AOL. It is not as secure as it claims to be. We recently tried to log on to our billing account and after much difficulty (when our regular password and phone number would not be accepted) imagine our surprise (and horrors... since we pay yearly with a credit card) that AOL had put another person on our account (from a different State)and used all of their info to circumvent ours (including using their phone number over ours)! When we tried to get an explanation from AOL for this we were told we "obviously must have given someone else our password and added them to our account'!!! They made no apologies. We were forced to cancel the credit card we used to pay for the account and closed our AOL service... BUT they continue to bill us and have threatened to send us to "collection". Obviously, this other person is still using our "closed account". Talk about scary. Check your AOL billing account. You may find you are not the only name on the account.

Date reviewed: Aug 23, 2006 6:22 PM

Nickname: Sven

Review: No doubt, there must be money in selling a compiled record of sites visited and inquiries made by registered users. Unfortunately, the Windows operaing system now prevents those who know a little about where information is stored from deleting or overwriting that record. I believe this raises the spectre of another lawsuit directed against Microsoft. Why? Well, it has something to do with selling software for private ownership without disclosing that the software contains uneditable files (such as index.dat) that will reveal private information about the owner who also uses that software. It's called a Trojan Horse and it implies that it is now more important for Microsoft to surreptitiously provide data to lobbying advertisers than it is to maintain the trust of users who are reminded daily that they are susceptible to some new vulnerability. To attempt to remove this and other files causes the system to lock or hang, but no similar level of protection exists to keep hackers out.

Date reviewed: Aug 23, 2006 2:08 PM