active update-aol core services – software update -Is this from AIM?

I don’t know if this problem is still current for anyone or not, but just wanted to say that I was able to get rid of that AOL Core Services Update pop-up by conducting a hard-drive search for all files with “aolsoftware” in their names (they were all in Program Files/CommonFiles/AOL/1100810015/ee), and deleting them. The pop-up is evidently triggered by the AOL system link in the desktop tray, which is why it activates even when you’re not connected to the internet. So if you subscribe to AOL, when you delete the “aolsoftware” files, the AOL link will disappear as well, along with its access to system information. I imagine there’s a way to get rid of the pop-up without losing the link altogether, but I was so irritated by the time I got to this point that I took a slash-and-burn approach.

2nd posting here: Against my own better judgement and my own advice I installed that damn AOL update 4-8-06.First you get about 5 new AOL programs/files, ok,then everything seems to be working fine.Next time I start my pc,my icon for my non-AOL Isp.(internet service provider) in the system tray is gone; never happened before- has the new AOL files so greedy/jealous that they sabotage/eliminate the competion??:mad: I used to have AOL as bundled with most new pc’s, but I stopped of course and switched to something else. Now the fun begins, I can’t connect to the internet and then everything freezes on my pc. For sh*t. Last resort I pull the pc’s plug; yes that one. Restart.Samething happens again-everything freezes,I pull the plug [EMAIL=”again.Fr@k”]again.Freak[/EMAIL] AOL. Third try I get back to normal which is that I created a “Restore Point” before I installed that damn AOL update.Result: those 5 new Aol files are gone and that damned AOL update reminder is finally gone, too. Yippie:p Advice: don’t install untill we/you/I have more intel/confirming such updates validity and stability and importantly create a “Restore Point” before installing questionable items. Hope I have been helpful to the rest of you’se still with that damn AOL update on your machine, remember mine is just only one experience; there may be more who have successfully installed- thou there not telling.Keep posting- positive or negative outcomes.4-11-06

Thus why my PC is AOL Free. Triton has had way to many odd things with it, I honestly don’t trust it. I don’t trust AOL. I really think these updates are safe and all, however, I am spooked by AIM Triton and all the odd things with it. It’s just that everything with it has been odd, the install, always running, now these updates with no info regarding them…All too strange. And remember, even though AOL may seem to care, they do, about money.

Hey, I deleted these files and it worked great – but then once I signed onto AIM again, they came back!!!! GRRRRRRRR

DO NOT INSTALL the AOL Core Services software updates! As the pop-up notifications instructs you to and as stupidly as I did — thinking I was protecting my daughter who is an avid AIM user as well as her friends. The consequences were major and is a little early to tell at the moment if our computer is stably behaving after having major repairs and a rebuilt!

It started out with just spontaneous restarts, then with the frequent flashes of the blue screens listing a stop-code error message (they were different each time it occurred). There wasn’t a set pattern when to expect the restarts and various error messages we would get. Being a non-techie and not having the funds to get it checked and repaired readily, I tried to handle it on my own to try to resolve the problems coming up and tolerated restarts, stop codes and error messages for a few weeks, depending on the help and guidance of Microsoft Online and advices from a few family and friends. Then, the last straw — would not boot up (blank screen)!

My tech friend had a hell of the time with our computer. Though he couldn’t isolate the root cause, he highly suspected that a very serious virus got into our computer having seen too many corrupted files and then the timing of a few failed devices along with it.

I’m the one who allowed it to happen, dag-nab-it! Seeing that “AOL” pop-up notification again after having to reinstall AIM for my daughter, heeding the advice of my tech friend to only download from the software maker/source site, couldn’t find an updates section or references to AOL core services on AOL’s site (not even in their security central section or FAQs that I’d scanned, and seeing no company name, logo or link in the pop-up notification or view history link made me suspicious. Was about to write to AOL online asking to confirm the authenticity of that software update notification, but thought let me Google this to see what others have wrote about this and saw your post listing the similar experiences to mine. Hopefully, for you, your computer is fine and that you didn’t have to go the extent, time and expense that we went through.

Will now “report the problem” to AOL online as a request to handle this misleading notification. Will they handle it and can they resolve it is another issue. I’m not here to rant, but hope to save others from what I put my family, my tech friend and me through.

This whole maddening experience made me realized how very dependent I am now on a computer to retrieve, store and maintain almost all of my information, especially, all my contacts. My contacts and their communications are my most valued information. I’m honestly considering as backup now to also WRITE down my important information on PAPER!

I’m sorry to read you went through similars, but glad you had shared your experience and difficulties. I’m now at peace on the cause as to what brought down our computer. I’m going to forward this to my tech friend who had brought our computer back to health, or should I say, a new life?

So, yeah, I did not use search to find this “persistant” folder talked about… I went the direct route, and explored through my own files… what I found…

“PERSISTENT” has 11 folders in it, each folder having:
1) 1 file “1.1.1”
2) 1 file “1.1.1”
3) 1 file “1.1.1”
4) 26 files “0.0.04, 0.0.08…”
5) 99 files, including the “update” that I got notification for that I almost downloaded, until I found this site… thank you, by the way
6)-11) all have just one file, called “1.1.1”

Now, I am not very computer savy.. but, what is all of this? Can anyone explain?

I think I’m finally free from that pesky pop-up. It’s been a few weeks now, and I haven’t seen it since. I also wonder if everyone here is also an AOL Beta tester? As soon as I unsubscribed to beta testing, seems the problem went away. Now if I can remember how I did it… I remember I searched the computer for the update number, (mine was 3881.7.19) and it found the EXE file, called c:DocumentsAndSettingsAllUsersApplicationDataA OLUserProfilesAllUsersSUDSPersistant5 and I deleted that, but I don’t remember if that was before or after un-subscribing to AOL Beta. Hope that helps give you a clue anyway. Sorry I was so selfish not to share quicker, but when the problem was solved, I guess I was just so happy to get back to happy computer life, I forgot you all were still hanging. I would like to hear if anyone else is Beta, maybe that’s the root of this whole problem, and maybe that’s why AOL is so hush-hush, telling us to “just download it and shut-up, damnit!”. Here I thought I was so ‘special’ to be picked for beta, but I’ll never do it again. I’d rather wait for the GM issue after all the other sorry suckers get the crap with beta. Boy, for $26 a month, you’d think they’d at least buy us dinner before f-ing us!