- From: Chris Brenton at DPICORP <cbrenton@digprod.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:40:25 -0400
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
I picked this up off another thread. While I have not personally verified if this is true, I felt it was critical enough to pass along as a warning. >>Subject: CompuServe searchs-and-destroys all other browsers >> >>Good morning etherworld.... >> >>Just had an interesting conversation with my ex-boss (still good friends) >>about what happens when you have many browsers on your system (Mosaic, >>Netscape, Spry etc...) and then download the browser from Compuserve. >>When someone launches the Cserve browser, it search-and-destroys all >>other browsers on you system. This is no joke. She has three hard drives, >>where her Compuserve account was on d: and all of her others were >>scattered. When she launche Cserve to do an evaluation of their offering, >>the configuration searched out her whole system, erased dll files and exe >>files from the other browsers, pulled in the bookmark.htm files into its >>own configuration, and trashed her Winsock. >> >>Boy is she pissed. She emailed Cserve threatening a suit (she has the >>clout to do it too) and screamed at them for their arrogance. They > >*called* her back and told her to take it court!!!! >> >>Pass this along to anyone you know. Of course I doubt any of us use >>Compuserve but there are many innocents who don't know any better!
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