However, it does muck with your winsock.dll, since the Dialer which
comes with NetLauncher has its own (part of the value). I have yet
to find a nice way to have multiple different WINSOCK.DLLs so that I
can use different PPP or LAN TCP implementations conveniently.
At 12:52 PM 4/20/95 +0500, Chris Brenton at DPICORP wrote:
>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!
>
Dave Cardinal
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