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Hello everyone,
First off thanks for your help. My problem is that I recently went out and bought a new computer and installed AIM nearly right away. Everything was running very smoothly until one of my friends tried to im me. The IM caused my AIM to crash. I thought it was just a freak thing but it kept reoccuring. I tried update sound and display drivers and win updates. I change versions to the new beta version offered on AIM’s wesbite. None of that worked. I tried working with the person changing various settings in AIM that did not work either. This person never caused aim to crash on my other computer. I use no Addons or anything like that. anyhelp would be great! Thanks
System specs:
Win XP home
Gefore 6800
Soundblaster 5.1 i believe is the sound card.-Nick
Hi Nick … and welcome to BBB (though I only arrived myself a few days ago!)
I’ve no idea, but I do just wonder, is this YOUR problem, or your FRIEND’s ?
Do you get IMs ok from other friends … and/or … is your friend able to IM OTHER people happily ?Assuming this is -your- problem and not your friends’ problem, then I’d suggest trying an old version of AIM (5.2.3292 is pretty stable) from http://www.oldversion.com.
Hello and thanks for the replies. I do believe this is My problem since on my other computer it works fine. It only crashes with just this one person and it doesnt crash for other people they talk with. I am currently 5.9.3782 which is a beta version of 5.9. The only reason im using a beta version was the normal release of 5.9 did the same thing so ive been playing with different versions. I will try to use an old version and see if that works and will let you know. Thank you!
-Nick
I’m pretty sure there’s an updated beta version available. Download and install that, and see what happens.
If it only crashes with that one person, I’m wondering if they’re sending you bunk characters and symbols in the IM, or some very weird html formatting that causes AIM to crash.
What version of AIM is your friend using?
Would you mind installing middle_man and then follow these directions to get rid of the error when you run AIM. Once you’re up and running, go into my aim>middle_man>settings and set the logging directory. Have your friend IM you until you crash, and then grab the html file from the logging directory and email it to me, please- jon8rfc.homeip.net
I can take a peek at the html and if I see anything weird, test it out on myself on a few versions and maybe we’ll get somewhere. If something is found, I’ll send it on over as a bug report for AIM and hopefully they can patch the exploit…if it’s actually an exploit and not a problem with the AIM client your friend is using.
Hello Everyone,
I don’t want you guys to think I’ve forgotten about you 🙂 Been kind of busy lately. I tried the 5.2 verison that was suggested and it did work fine with out a crash. I’m trying the updated beta version at the moment and see how that works. After that i will do the logging and send it off to you. Thanks Very much for the help, sorry for slowing it down 🙂
Ok so heres an update… I’ve tried the latest beta versions they didnt fix it. However I did notice if the person Im’d me and I had an away message up and then took it down and talked to her that it worked perfectly. it seems to crash only on the initial IM
TheirScreenname: hey
Auto response from MyScreenName: why?
This is the html code of one of the Im’s
check to see if the person is using AOL. it happened to me a while ago when people on AOL IMed me. I dont know how i got rid of it, but i think i updated the windows update thing and scanned for spyware and adware.
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