[AuckLUG] Xtra-Yahoo Webmail

[Bill Keesing]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:47 +1200, Ton van den Broek wrote:
> We all have probably heard of the "problems" Xtramail is having at the
> moment. Apparently you have to download a Yahoo application to read your
> webmail. Is that app working under Linux as well? Has anybody tried it. I
> haven't, because I'm not interested in a YooHoo ID.
> If it is not working under Linux (or a Mac), we have another reason to yell
> at Telecom.

The changes that Xtra makes are very hard to remove. We have an intranet
at work and a script that we run to set certain settings in the users
account. Even after removing the Yahoo/Xtra crapware the scrip could not
change the homepage from the Xtra/Yahoo site to our intranet site so we
have blocked the site until we can determine exactly how Xtra is
screwing things up so we can fix it properly.

Anyone remember the infamous Xtra disks that did things like borking the
TCP stack and broke existing Netscape setups? Looks like they are at it
again.