gator.com

[Gilly Bean]

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The Gator Corporation is the leader in online behavioral marketing. Gator enables consumers to download and use some of the Web's most popular software -- for free. Some of these software applications are published by The Gator Corporation such as the Gator eWallet, the world's most popular digital wallet; others are produced by third party publishers.

What they don't say in their opening: We put this on your computer, whether you want it or not.

I've been deleting their program from my computer for 3 days. Every time I delete it, it shows back up as having been recently downloaded onto my cpu.

I can get rid of it daily, but does anyone know how I can go about making certain it doesn't keep attaching to my cpu?

The thing that bothers me, is that I haven't even been downloading things, so it's just attaching off random website hits.

 

[freakygirl]

run spybot.. it will get rid of it.

Use spybot before and after downloading anything.

 

[Gilly Bean]

I have that going already, which is how I keep finding it. How is it downloading without me downloading anything, though?

 

[cuz cracker]

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What they don't say in their opening: We put this on your computer, whether you want it or not.

I've been deleting their program from my computer for 3 days. Every time I delete it, it shows back up as having been recently downloaded onto my cpu.

I can get rid of it daily, but does anyone know how I can go about making certain it doesn't keep attaching to my cpu?

The thing that bothers me, is that I haven't even been downloading things, so it's just attaching off random website hits.

thank god!

i thought i was losing my mind!

yes, run spy-ware detectors and empty trash, and internet caches and every thing else you can think of!

search for gator related stuff on your hard-drive and delete.

it took me three weeks to get rid of that shit.

 

[freakygirl]

No idea

I've never had that problem.

It might be in your registry hidden and spybot isn't finding all of it.

Let me see what I can find online about removing it and get back to you.

 

[Azwed]

Get a firewall like zonealarm or something similar to keep unathrorized programs from acessing the internet.

 

[Lancecastor]

I have my preferences set to ask me before downloading, so if Gator gets on my ass (most often via a site people will link from here in a post) it asks me if I want the Gator.

 

[Coca~Cola]

Yes, made this same mistake a year or two ago, It took about a month for it to stop poping up.
And ZoneAlarm Rocks.

 

[MistyBluEyes]

Have you tried the spyware browser test in the beginning of Lit? It will detect it and then tell you how to get rid of it. It has helped me with a similar program before.

 

[freakygirl]

here ya go...

Lots of info on how to get rid of it..

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=getting+rid+of+gator.com


Now remember gator piggybacks other programs (Kazaa and Audiogalaxy to name a few). When you download these programs you are oking gator also.

 

[Gilly Bean]

Just did a search on my cpu, and it was still there after having deleted it.


Thanks for the suggestions, gonna try some out now.

 

[Alvin Brickrock]

Just did a search on my cpu, and it was still there after having deleted it.


Thanks for the suggestions, gonna try some out now.

If you're running Windows ME, then you have to disable system restore then delete it and then reboot your PC.

 

[Spinaroonie]

install linux; problem solved.

 

[Slick]

If you're running Windows ME, then you have to disable system restore then delete it and then reboot your PC.

Same goes for WinXP.

It's usually a program loading when you boot your PC.

Click Start > Run > and type 'msconfig'

click the Startup tab, and look for anything dodgy and uncheck it, making note of the path and filename

The gator programs are usually pretty easy to find here. After you reboot, click yes to accept the error checking mode of msconfig.

If it gets rid of the problem, you can delete (or rename) the file.

 

[Alvin Brickrock]

If all else fails, give freakygurl's mother in law a call.

 

[Gilly Bean]

I'm on the dinosaur, so I'm on Win98 right now. Anyway to block on this old ass prog?

 

[Alvin Brickrock]

I'm on the dinosaur, so I'm on Win98 right now. Anyway to block on this old ass prog?

zone alarm version 1.000000 BC

 

[Slick]

I'm on the dinosaur, so I'm on Win98 right now. Anyway to block on this old ass prog?

my previous post works on all windows systems.

 

[April]

The current Zone Alarm works on Win 98. It's what I'm using. Also, have you updated Spybot? You need to do that once a week, at least. Run a full system scan, and let it fix all problems for you. If you try to "fix" it manually, that might be where you're running into the problem with it coming back. Dunno, though, as I haven't had any spyware problems for quite a while.

 

[Slick]

You can also try Lavasoft's Ad-Aware (get it free @ www.download.com). That should get rid of all the Gator shit and any other spyware progs you've got installed.

 

[Alvin Brickrock]

You can also try Lavasoft's Ad-Aware (get it free @ www.download.com). That should get rid of all the Gator shit and any other spyware progs you've got installed.

I use ad-aware. works great.

 

[Gilly Bean]

The one I have specifically is ad-aware.


Did msconfig, and there wasn't anything unusal under startup.

 

[Slick]

If all else fails, give freakygurl's mother in law a call.

still laffin'.... funny

 

[Slick]

basic question... have you checked inside the Startup folder in your programs tree?
Sometimes, we overlook the simple stuff.

 

[Gilly Bean]

basic question... have you checked inside the Startup folder in your programs tree?
Sometimes, we overlook the simple stuff.

How do I get to that?