AOL scheduler appeared from nowhere. I've disabled it, but is a security issue?

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My father told me today that my mother's new laptop is running very slowly. I took a look and found "AOL Scheduler" was running and taking up loads of system resources. I did a quick google on this and found out how to disable it. However, where did it come from? Has some malware tried to install it on the computer? It's protected via a router firewall and Zone Alarm and it's running Norton AV.

I'm very suspicious that it wasn't on the computer before. It's a new DELL laptop.