AIM And Enhanced IM Features

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Anybody besides me having issues with AIM? I just upgraded to the new AIM 6.5. I run Norton Internet Security 2008 on windows vista home premium. I've tried turning off the firewall, all of norton and it still seems to do it. I get an "An Unknown Failure Occurred" message whenever i try and send pictures through IM, and when i try and send a file it always fails. What's up with that?
 
do you have aol for internet? if not i would can aim and get something else. i wouldnt turn off my firewall since thats just asking for trouble. its there to protect your computer from hackers getting in. i used to run norton and had all kinds of trouble with it. plus norton is the biggest memory hog program out there. it uses memory like crazy and will slow your system down. get a gmail account and have all your friends get one too. you can send up to 20 mb files through gmail plus they have an instant messenger built right in that gives no hassles. gmail also has about 2+ gigs of free storage for email's and if you get the gmail drive, you can store programs on their server and access them anywhere. as for a firewall, i would look into comodo free and avast antivirus home edition which is free too.
 
Well.....the two biggest problems you can have on a computer are AOL (in any form) and Symantec/Norton antivirus/Internet security. Yex...definitely complete resource hogs and AOL just takes over what Norton drops on the floor for the dogs.

G-Mail sounds like a good solution...Google is starting to provide some real good online only solutions for people.

I personally use Trillian for IM. I normally run an AOL IM account and an ICQ account at the same time in Trillian. I also have a Yahoo IM account but I normally don't run it at the same time (don't know anyone else that uses Yahoo)...but I can run all three if I needed too. Trillian is easy on the system resources and you customize the skins for it. If you're good with graphics editing...you can even modify it to your liking even more.

I do IT work for a living and I have had so many customers corporate/consumer environment that have called me with computer issues. They usually say their machine just seems to be running slow and it takes a long time for applications to open/startup or save. They complain that they always see their mouse pointer in the form of an hour-glass more than an arrow a lot of the time. The majority of the time it is because they are running these types of applications. IM is a valuable business tool...I have asked the client if they mind trying something a little different and then I switch them to Trillian...never had a client go back to the proprietary IM services application. As far as the antivirus/firewall software...I can usually steer people away from the ones causing problems and get them setup with AVG Free but it's a little different in a business environment. The corporate edition of Norton antivirus is not as bad as the consumer versions and is very effective but pricey. I would pay for the full version of AVG for business purposes before I would use any of the memory hogging versions that cost so much more.


John
 
richard j said:
do you have aol for internet? if not i would can aim and get something else. i wouldnt turn off my firewall since thats just asking for trouble. its there to protect your computer from hackers getting in. i used to run norton and had all kinds of trouble with it. plus norton is the biggest memory hog program out there. it uses memory like crazy and will slow your system down. get a gmail account and have all your friends get one too. you can send up to 20 mb files through gmail plus they have an instant messenger built right in that gives no hassles. gmail also has about 2+ gigs of free storage for email's and if you get the gmail drive, you can store programs on their server and access them anywhere. as for a firewall, i would look into comodo free and avast antivirus home edition which is free too.
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I just turned my firewall off to see if that was what was blocking it. If it was, i would have set it up to allow AIM to connect through it. No, i used SBC Yahoo DSL for my internet.
 
jchaney said:
Well.....the two biggest problems you can have on a computer are AOL (in any form) and Symantec/Norton antivirus/Internet security. Yex...definitely complete resource hogs and AOL just takes over what Norton drops on the floor for the dogs.

G-Mail sounds like a good solution...Google is starting to provide some real good online only solutions for people.

I personally use Trillian for IM. I normally run an AOL IM account and an ICQ account at the same time in Trillian. I also have a Yahoo IM account but I normally don't run it at the same time (don't know anyone else that uses Yahoo)...but I can run all three if I needed too. Trillian is easy on the system resources and you customize the skins for it. If you're good with graphics editing...you can even modify it to your liking even more.

I do IT work for a living and I have had so many customers corporate/consumer environment that have called me with computer issues. They usually say their machine just seems to be running slow and it takes a long time for applications to open/startup or save. They complain that they always see their mouse pointer in the form of an hour-glass more than an arrow a lot of the time. The majority of the time it is because they are running these types of applications. IM is a valuable business tool...I have asked the client if they mind trying something a little different and then I switch them to Trillian...never had a client go back to the proprietary IM services application. As far as the antivirus/firewall software...I can usually steer people away from the ones causing problems and get them setup with AVG Free but it's a little different in a business environment. The corporate edition of Norton antivirus is not as bad as the consumer versions and is very effective but pricey. I would pay for the full version of AVG for business purposes before I would use any of the memory hogging versions that cost so much more.


John
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Yeah, i used to run trillian and i loved it. But i just like AIM. The reason i'm still running norton is because when i got Vista i popped in my norton 2006 cd because i had like 2 months left on it and i didnt wanna be left wide open and when norton redirected me because 2006 wasnt compatable with vista somehow it changed my product code and i got another year and a half free! So i kind of couldnt complain. i love the new 2008 internet security. 2006 and 2007 also werent bad, but previous versions i do agree were mem hogs. I got AIM to work on my XP based laptop, i just created rules in the firewall for it, but i cant seem to get it on vista. Norton and AIM are the same versions on both computers and everything is setup exactly the same. Any thoughts? I'm new on vista but i can pretty much run laps around anyone on previous OS'. I also work on computers in my spare time installing hardware, software or just fixing them. I tried looking in the registry for a solution but the only stuff they list in AIM are preferences not proxy settings or anything. No, i am not behind a proxy i was just looking for anything internet based in there.
 
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