AIM 5.5.3415 Beta Released

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:08 pm

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp?aolp=

Doesn't look all that special to me. Looks bloated. Yay. However, AOL did add MSN-style alerts to it, as well as the ability to foward IMs to your cell phone when you put up an away message.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:09 pm

Oh I get it... With only one currently being updated AIM add-on client they add yet another thing people are going to want removed... Save your ad dollars by buying out a company.

insomica · Post by **insomica** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:12 pm

Is it worth getting as far as it being stable?

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:21 pm

I haven't downloaded it--and I don't want too. But I am at least hoping that it's more stable then the last "final" build of AIM..

Robpol86 · Post by **Robpol86** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:26 pm

aim patcher wont work nicley w/ it..

so far i found 1 bug fixed

and sumthin else, in the thing where u can input the amount of mins till it "fades" a an for being idle, theres a min limit now, 10 mins

new feature in bl and imbox, a button called "GAMES", which have sum pretty gay games on there imo

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:42 pm

They are saying that dead AIM 4.0 is not capible with it

Walker · Post by **Walker** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:44 pm

insomica wrote:Is it worth getting as far as it being stable?

I think it is fairly stable.

harra · Post by **harra** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:14 am

It also comes bundled with SpyWare. WildTangent is a pain in the butt to get removed from your computer. WildTangent is the developer of the "games" that are bundled with this release.

Plus, I saw a screen shot of the b/l on BetaNews and it looks really cluttered with buttons and stuff people will want removed. The actual b/l itself is so tiny from all the space devoted to stuff like ads

[ETA: Link to BetaNews review]
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=929853714

nybbles · Post by **nybbles** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:10 am

harra wrote:It also comes bundled with SpyWare. WildTangent is a pain in the butt to get removed from your computer. WildTangent is the developer of the "games" that are bundled with this release.

Plus, I saw a screen shot of the b/l on BetaNews and it looks really cluttered with buttons and stuff people will want removed. The actual b/l itself is so tiny from all the space devoted to stuff like ads

[ETA: Link to BetaNews review]
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=929853714

Yeah, I found that immediately when my firewall said WildTangent was trying to run. I immediately hit deny.

You can remove WildTangent with Spybot S&D quite easily. http://security.kolla.de

Also immediately after installing Ad-Aware found the VX2.BetterInternet .

WHAT ARE THEY DOING??

All that just for some games.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:19 am

So what is new (That people wanted)??

harra · Post by **harra** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:36 am

PhaseDMA wrote:So what is new (That people wanted)??

I guess the MSN-style pop-up notifications

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:12 am

So just to get the MSN-style alerts, you have to deal with a Buddy List window that has no real usable space to see your buddies, spyware, and stupid games that you won't play?

Not worth downloading.

harra · Post by **harra** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:13 am

DADINK13 wrote:Not worth downloading.

My sentiments exactly.

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:17 am

god the new AIM beta is sounding worse and worse. I had to use Adware to get GAIM off my comptuer because it was forced down my though when I installed the DivX codecs (which is pretty much neccesy now days). I firewalled the program the had it removed.

Speaking of wich will adware remove the AIM spyware from you computer

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:38 am

Ad-aware is a life-saver..

..too bad it'll disable KaZaA if you're not careful--but that's besides the point.

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AIM 5.5.3415 Beta Released

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