So this is something different vs this one below ???...

Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters?

No one knows, but we'll probably find out soon.

Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go "live" on April 1, but whoever's controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there's less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C -- the latest bad boy -- will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there's no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.

Conficker's a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren't without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.

Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.

But if Conficker's already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss -- try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check -- you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.

Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec's Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro's Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don't have Conficker.)

As a final safety note, all users -- whether they're worried about an infection or know for sure they're clean -- are also wise to make a full data backup today.

What won't work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Temporarily disconnecting your computer from the web won't help if the malware is already on your machine -- it will simply activate once you connect again. Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out. Follow the above instructions to detect and remove the worm.

http://www.vonage.com/support.php?lid=nav_support

Not sure if you tired to follow any of there steps they have under there support page which is the link above I give to you. But they have the answers right there.

Funny.. thing is I hear people who have problems with vonage and others who do not.

But any way's try checking your firewall and internet, maybe one of the two need's to be reset or change. My guess is your firewall, which I could be wrong.

Hmm.. the job market is dead every where. Could be wrong but that's the last I've heard.

Not that kind of " wanted "

.. notin .... for real.. I was just being nice was all.

what do I want ? hmmm ... all in all just to be loved and or to know I am wanted by some one... I know far cry from that happening.

I don't personaly think your too old for that.


To answer the question.. sure I can wait.. I don't see the problem.

.. one person may never know.. what the true topic was about.. lol. It just took to long for too many people to seemly respond / reply. So the topic at hand, I choosen to have deleted etc and yet this topic remains open.. go figure.

No big deal.

Yeah... I know. Makes no real differences to me, however I am just so use to using aol and all it's no big deal.

Wow four hours. That's about as long depending on the speed of a person pc and all as it would take to reinstall everything after wipping out the whole OS system and reinstalling it.


However AOL doesn't bother me as much as it does every body else, not sure why it bothers every body else so much, but I guess I'm just used to AOL software / program.

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More then likely it's a glitch in mingle system.

lol.. must be aol dumbass's that programed it that way... so you can never get rid of it. Which is stuiped.

Only other way to remove it is to get a new windows os cd rom and wipe out your old system and reinstall it and bang you won't have noting on it.. could be wrong but it seem's like the only way to remove it.

Probably so, but even if you do remove aol.. there is still pics of it arounds on your pc, it never goes away from what I have been told.. could be wrong.

yeah well.. after more reading into this new thing.. I just found out some how they have been getting requests to get this new type of service. So if you have facebook or any other thing I guess it's on automatic or something to add friends etc from those sites.

Kinda stuiped I think.

Funny because it's free for me. Yes I said free.. if you have High speed cable or DSL etc.. it's free, it's been like that for a few years now.

figures every body hates aol.. lol, I can understand why, I just like using it.. not too sure why other then it's easier for me to use. Maybe some day I'll get out of using aol.. who knows.

I didn't noticed this until like seconds ago of signing back online to AOL. all of a sudden there is this new buddy list on my buddy list.

I tired to deleted it and it won't let me do it.. it won't go no where. Not even sure how it got there because I have not download or install anything.

It's called Bebo Friends. It say's I have two friends under Bebo.

I just never heard of this and since I never installed anything it makes it more crazy.. to me at least that is.

Any idea if there is a way to remove this ?

Nope .. I don't think so.

Around..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yPfUhYHxJ4