We're willing to work with anybody for interoperability,

There's a lot of movement in the browser area now, and consumers are clearly looking for a choice. We look forward to talking to other PC manufacturers about offering consumers a similar choice.

As we've said, we support interoperability of instant messaging. We are working with the IETF and think the standard should protect the privacy of AOL's users. We're also working with Apple, Sun, Real Networks, and Novell to move to a standard. Currently our service is interoperable with Lotus IBM, and a week ago, we made it interoperable with Novell's.

Obviously we can't speak for McAfee, but we haven't seen a significant increase in the number of people affected.

Users don't want to spend time trying to figure out if something is a security risk. This way, they can see that it is, delete it and move on.

Computer Associates simply has a bigger database, and its technology is faster and has more scanning ability. We felt this was the best antispyware that we could offer our members.