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**Steven** · 4th-February-2005, 03:37 PM

AOL should have supplied you with a free antivirus package with your broadband. Any connection to the internet can allow a virus to infect the computer if unprotected. XP has its own inbuilt firewall (not perfect) but better than nothing. As DS says you are better going with a new pc as your current one won't like running XP.

Reloading AOL on to a new computer should work without any problems.

One tip though.....connect using the AOL dialer (not AOL 9) and use a seperate mail and internet client (i.e. thunderbird - email, firebird - web). This is what I have set up on the pc at home.

Cheers
Steven

4th-February-2005, 03:37 PM	#8 (permalink)
Steven Taxi Dancer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Dundee Posts: 157 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 10	Re: AOL problems broadband AOL should have supplied you with a free antivirus package with your broadband. Any connection to the internet can allow a virus to infect the computer if unprotected. XP has its own inbuilt firewall (not perfect) but better than nothing. As DS says you are better going with a new pc as your current one won't like running XP. Reloading AOL on to a new computer should work without any problems. One tip though.....connect using the AOL dialer (not AOL 9) and use a seperate mail and internet client (i.e. thunderbird - email, firebird - web). This is what I have set up on the pc at home. Cheers Steven