My uncle mailed me this

[Uranium-235]

Not sure wth is going on

Paul: today I loaded MSword 2000, and now I can't run AOL. Aol tells me that there are issues with loading it while having an anti-virus installed (I've got McAfee) and that I should have uninstalled it before loading Word. It appears while I'm signing on to AOL, during the sign-on sequence, when my computer is telling their computer who is signing on, that Word/WIN changes the network settings in some way and the sign on is not being recognized by AOL's server. I had to change computers to write this since I can not sign on at this time.
Anyway, probably this weekend, let's get together and see if this problem can be solved w/o calling MS, which is what the AOL tech suggested. She also said that uninstalling Word probably wouldn't solve the problem.
That's the gist of it.
Uncle Bob

[Jason425]

wish I knew.. but word does some funky things to me too.. dump aol?

[Dragon]

maybe it trying to connect to the microsoft server or something, and messing with your connections?