AOL scheduler appeared from nowhere?

tomstickland

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.

intel

I expect it was from new thanks to the DEll(boy) AO(hell) partnerdship.

tomstickland

Ah right, I can relax a bit more then.
There are about 25 items in the start up configuration though. Is there anywhere with a handy list of what each thing does? My PC has about 3 items in the start up list.

intel

http://www.tasklist.org/

tomstickland

We also discoverd something useful. The wireless problems are due to weak signal or cordless phone interference. I'm going to work my way through all the channels to see if any are more reliable. My connection drops out occasionally and won't recover until I restart my machine.

espresso

tomstickland wrote:

We also discoverd something useful. The wireless problems are due to weak signal or cordless phone interference. I'm going to work my way through all the channels to see if any are more reliable. My connection drops out occasionally and won't recover until I restart my machine.

WiFi channels.

When choosing other channels, remember you're only choosing the central point and the signal will actually use 3 channels each side. Essentially you have channels 1, 6 and 11 as the only completely distinct options.

:rolleyes:

tomstickland

Ah thanks, that's interesting.

If I use channel 1 though, does that mean it uses channels -3 through to +3? Or if 1 means 1-6, then 11 is 11-16?