This is personal experience.. so you will keep that in mind in the folowing statements, yes?
Do with it what you will....
AOL has always been intrusive.. they built it that way.. despite the claims of "We do not sell or give out your personal information".....'
They do..:eek:
Billy? What AV and/or Firewall did you have in place when this issue happened?
Randy has a good idea, totally dump AOL.. before trying to install anything new, please try running CCleaner from the link in my signature. There are other AV things to be tried of all of this doesn't get all of it.
Before you run, of course, check it out.. you dont know me, but I will tell you that I do use it myself.
I hope this helps some :)