[RESOLVED] A O L Security (?)

[terryZ]

We recently replaced a Windows 98 SE machine here at work and gave the 98 to a co-worker's 70-year-old mother (for email & web surfing). We are in Chicago and she is in a small town in Michigan so there is very little "hands-on" help.

She indicated that she was going to install AOL 9.0 Security Edition on her machine. Because I am unfamiliar with AOL in general and did not know whether software like AVG or ZoneAlarm would not play well with AOL, I did not put any other anti-virus or firewall software on it before I gave it to her.

Well, she's had the machine for less than two months when AOL froze her account. AOL said that she had a trojan and that she had spread it to other AOL members. AOL had her change her password and asked her to do so on a regular basis. I'm not sure how this got rid of the trojan but ...

Is anyone familiar with this Security Edition of AOL? I know that running a disk scan with Norton would discover any trojans, viruses, etc but does AOL have a disk scanning routine? Would Norton Anti-Virus interfer with any AOL "security" software that might be running on her machine?

The same concerns apply to installing a firewall like ZoneAlarm on a machine with this version of AOL.

Any comments (except getting rid of AOL) would be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Terry