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

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:11:16 -0500, Stan Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"Flatfoot" wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.browser:
>>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.
>
>While I agree that Microsoft is Evil(TM), I don't think you can blame 
>MS for this one.
>
>A friend and I downloaded Mozilla 1.7.5 on two computers with Win XP 
>SP2 a day or two after Xmas and it went lickety-split, installed 
>easily, and ran fine.
>
>I suspect there was something off about the settings of your computer 
>when you tried the download. Just for comparison, did you try a 15 MB 
>download from some other site?

Since it was a new install I downloaded the latest versions of a
number of programs.  Everything went great on every web sit except
Mozilla.org.  It wasn't just the download that was slow, but the
entire site.  When the same Exact thing happened again with a
different new install I got suspicious.

I'm going to forget about it now.