Problem with AIM (Instant Messenger) ***IMMINENT DISASTER AVERTED*** THE WORLD IS RIGHT AGAIN!

[BiggieN]

i jsut loaded me comp again after rebooting...and i lost my whole buddylist. same thing happened to my friend. can anyone confirm this? i've reinstalled ait and installed an earlier version as well...this is messed up.

 

[DarK SagE]

same thing i jsut updated to a new version and i cant get my buddy list to load, it keaps crashing, and my old buddy list is gone.

 

[Zenmervolt]

It's AOL, you're taking your life into your own hands just thinking about using that junk. Seriously though I don't know what to suggest other than always keeping a hard copy of anything you think my be necessary or helpful someday. I never trust my computer to keep important information, because I usually screw it up and have to reformat. I think you may have no choice but to manually re-enter everything.

Aaron Meyer

 

[BiggieN]

it came back...must've been a dead server...

 

[NFS4]

Easy fix...delete the file called CDtool.dll in your Windows/System32 directory (or Winnt/System32) and restart IM

Some kind of fricken trojan or something.

 

[BiggieN]

hmmm...trojan?

 

[KotchY]

same with me, and my friends, sever thats stores our buddly lists probley crashed because it runs in windows..

 

[Yeeny]

I have had trouble lately with that too. And I notice people keep coming and going on my buddy list an awful lot, so I think it's just something screwy. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

 

[NFS4]

Well, mine started doing that crap after I went to a link that popped up about 50 IE Windows...then my IM complety flaked and wouldn't let me reload my buddy lost.

I tried to reinstall AIM and noticed that it kept registering cdtool.dll.

Tracked down the file, deleted it, and everything came back.

 

[BiggieN]

there was a buddyinfo.ocm error.

 

[beer]

My brother got this too....I reinstalled and it worked but let me know what the solution was. I didn't have a problem. if it was a trojan, time for some ass kicking.

 

[kendogg]

hehe 2 of my buddies experienced the same thing today.... mine was working fine the whole time

 

[somethingwitty]

in my case, I ran the auto-upgrade, and it seemed to work just fine. I then deleted another program (see my thread here) and lost my buddy list...deleting cdtool.dll worked, but I can't say for sure whether my initial problem was caused by the upgrade or the other POS program. either way, I'm ok now, have my list backed up, and know which file to try renaming in the future