First of all, anyone who told you to get Firefox is smart. IE sucks. You were surprised about the amount of spyware you had when you ran a scan? Why? IE is like the lead provided to spyware(not really but they couldn't block the crappiest spyware ever). Firefox is much faster, blocks most spyware and pretty well all ads.
quote:
I'm not sure, but maybe you should upgrade aol to 9.0 if you haven't already have, I'm sure you can get it somewhere, and it will be compatible with SP2 if its one of their newer updates..[/qutote]
Or here's some even better advise: DITCH AOL COMPLETELY! Pfft, worse ISP ever!