Re: WinXP is Tweaked to Make it Difficult to Download Mozilla

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:44:22 -0800, Andrew DeFaria
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Flatfoot wrote:
>
>> First see my post on 12/30/04 about this subject. There I talked about 
>> trying to download Mozilla on a new computer and the Mozilla website 
>> kept hanging, making it impossible to download the program.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I turned to my other computer, with Mozilla already 
>> installed, and was able to download the program in about two seconds. 
>> The new computer still wouldn't work on the Mozilla site although it 
>> worked fine on every other site that I tried.
>>
>> I thought that was suspicious.
>>
>> Today I rebuilt my old computer and reinstalled the OS from scratch 
>> and updated it to XP SP1 and also the latest security updates. Then I 
>> tried to download Mozilla. Again it was the same thing. The fresh XP 
>> install with updates works fine on every website except Mozilla.org.
>>
>> Again, while the newly set up computer was hanging on the Mozilla site 
>> I turned to the other computer and very quickly downloaded Mozilla and 
>> burned it to a disc, put it in the other computer and installed it.
>>
>> It took about 12 more minutes to finally download Mozilla with 
>> Internet Explorer.
>>
>> Don't give me any comments about "paranoid conspiracy theories." 
>> Anybody can try this: Fresh install of Windows XP, Windows Updates, 
>> and see how it is almost impossible to download Mozilla.
>>
>> Microsoft is up to its dirty tricks again. Those of you who think this 
>> is a "conspiracy theory" are simply ignorant of Microsoft's history of 
>> dishonest and deceitful tactics aimed at discouraging the use of 
>> competing products.
>
>Pure FUD! There are millions of users that this works just fine for. 
>Hell FF, for example has over 16 million downloads. They're not all 
>Linux. You just have some sort of configuration problem or an ISP problem.

I wouldn't expect a  configuration problem or ISP problem to only
affect the Mozilla web site.  I know it wasn't the ISP because a
second computer on the same network (already running Mozilla)
navigated the site and got the download with no problem.