AOL to Earthlink..sounded good, but

Been with AOL since 1995 and haven't experience a lot of the horror stories that I've read about. Anyhow, Earthlink sends me a CD with a promotion offer. Here are two things that bother me and am not sure if they are good or bad:

When I completed connection to Earthlink then Zonealarm asked me if I would allow "InstallShield update service agent" to access the internet. Never heard of it before and didn't allow access. Anyone know what this is about?

Secondly, I went to dial-up networking in control panel and there was a dial-up profile connection that had been created for the IP address or Host name of 192.168.0.1 which appears to be a connection to some sort of shopping something or other. Anyone know about this one? Note: I did not use it for connection but the connect for it kept popping up whenever I started my computer so I checked it out some, but would prefer more info on it.

 

192.168.0.1 is usually a local address, for let's say, a router.

 

Pretender - You might want to give this thread a look:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8409489~root=earthlink~mode=flat

Pete

 

And this link will not hurt you either


http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index.php?showtopic=8166&st=0&#entry31551

 

Didn't think I would ever get thru reading that! Interesting. I haven't even got to setting prefs yet and I will shortly. Took me forever just to be able to access thru their service. I don't know about everyone else, but I JUST WANT TO USE AND ISP TO ACCESS THE INTERNET AND THEN IT CAN LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!

 

Bet you can't guess who that original topic poster is