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

Flatfoot wrote:
> 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.
Maybe you caught mozilla.org at a very busy time, or when some servers 
were offline for maint., or when the path between mozilla and your 
computer was congested.