fafalone Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 AOL Instant Messenger (4.8.2790, probably other versions as well) reads files in the Internet Explorer cache that are not related to content used within the program. This can be verified by Windows error messages when files become corrupted and AIM attempts to read them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 What do they do with this data? Has aol addressed it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 10, 2002 Author Share Posted December 10, 2002 i dunno, i don't even know if the data is sent to the server, i just caught the bastard reading my cache constantly. because windows always gets these stop errors that instantly reset the computer, corrupting files, especially ones in the cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Well, that'll teach you to use AIM, won't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 11, 2002 Author Share Posted December 11, 2002 No, I don't care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 11, 2002 Share Posted December 11, 2002 Righto. I use Trillian simply because it means I don't need 5 separate clients open for Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, MSN and IRC. It does need regular updates to keep up with security threats though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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