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"For me, Forecastfox and IE View"

When it comes to weather, I have never had a problem with this nifty little program. I don't know who installed it, but I have been pretty happy with it. Another Firefox extension that I found most useful was this. ::thumbsup:: (y)(y)

Suppose the worse case scenario, and the US decides to "wage unilateral info-war on Brazil", they redirect everything under .br to point to http://www.gator.com/. If everything in Brazil goes through Brazil's root DNS, this action will have no effect.

Whether you like the The Great Firewall of China or not, China has demonstrated that it is possible to create their own partition of the internet completely subject to their own rules. If Brazil was worried about that, they could do something similar (not the censorship aspect, but having their own net).

This is nothing more than typical politicking at its worst. Ambassadors trading blowjobs, in the hope to gain poltical bargaining chips that they can use next time the US pisses everyone off.

Both are adware. Opera has ad supported version and a paid version, gator has the same. But why does Microsoft AntiSpyware detect Gator but not Opera? I think Microsoft is showing favortism to Opera.

i thought it was funny until i looked to make sure the company was called gator (and not just the product). i was surprised to find the gator ewallet that fills out forms, holds passwords, and encrypts stuff, and now i don't know what to say.

...that to help them with the task of collecting evidence that you install this helpful program which automatically remembers login IDs/passwords and fills in online forms with just one click.

Please click the following link ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H slashdot.org] and verify your account information, password, and private PGP key.

Afterall, in most cases the user has "agreed" to allow these programs to run by installing something without fully reading the terms of service.

That may be the reason why this group caved... not that money changed hands, but the threat of a lawsuit was waived around.

Luckily I have Gator for remembering all my passwords!

I don't have any trouble with that, since I saw a pop-up that offered this awesome program that remembers all those passwords for you! Now I never forget my passwords...

Another Windows alternative

*runs away* ;)

I've protected my privacy and use Gator for all my passwords.

I use the Gator! eWallet (tm)! it remembers all my passwords for me!!!!!!!111111

I don't get it, I thought Gator already had all these features.

#include <offical.artwork.h>
#include <trojan.h>

int main( int argc, char** argv ) {
trojan::pwned CATS( "All Your Base Are Belong to Unofficial Build" ) ;

actLikeNormalBuild( "/images/official/firefox.jpeg" ) ;
}

Use of something like Spam Motel highly recomended.

If you prefer another method of sharing your feelings. By all means SnailMail: GAIN Publishing, Inc. 2000 Bridge Parkway, Suite 100 Redwood City, CA 94065.
Their Fax Number is plainly listed as: 650-232-0400
For people in Redwood City, CA they even provide a MAP of their location

Interesting reading. I would definitely use an open-source virus scanner. Especially if you could customize the definitions or download "packs" for it. You could have a "Spyware Pack" that would have defs for Spyware programs like Gator, etc.

And you know that somebody would make a "Micro$oft Pack" with defs that will actually detect a virus if you install, say, MSN Messenger or WMP. That would be good for a laugh.

Interesting reading. I would definitely use an open-source virus scanner. Especially if you could customize the definitions or download "packs" for it. You could have a "Spyware Pack" that would have defs for Spyware programs like Gator, etc.

And you know that somebody would make a "Micro$oft Pack" with defs that will actually detect a virus if you install, say, MSN Messenger or WMP. That would be good for a laugh.

You mean Claria.

From Gator.com:
The Gator Corporation is now Claria Corporation. To visit the Claria Corporation website, please click here.

I can think of a great little program that can help you with that! Oh, and BTW, your system may not be optimized, it's broadcasting an IP to hackers, and your clock isn't accurate.

-moitz-

How about this:
Claria == Gator == Spyware!

BTW, linking just improves the pagerank of Claria and Gator.

Change your sig. If you want google to associate correctly, you need to have that in links, thusly:

Here's some spyware for you.
Here's some more spyware for you.
It's true. Claria is spyware even though they changed their name because Gator was spyware, too.

Love,
BadDoggie

woof.

Change your sig. If you want google to associate correctly, you need to have that in links, thusly:

Here's some spyware for you.
Here's some more spyware for you.
It's true. Claria is spyware even though they changed their name because Gator was spyware, too.

Love,
BadDoggie

woof.

Gator, (also know as Claria) is included on the list?

This one works... !

so does this... !

No redirect here!

same for this!

From any of those links above you should be able to browse through the old site.

This one works... !

so does this... !

No redirect here!

same for this!

From any of those links above you should be able to browse through the old site.

This one works... !

so does this... !

No redirect here!

same for this!

From any of those links above you should be able to browse through the old site.

Wanna see what evil will be appearing on your network soon? Source: Claria

Date-Manager
Gator E-Wallet
Weatherscope
www.precision-time
gainpublishing
Searchscout

I know I've seen several of these installed already on our systems at work.

Once spyware, always spyware.

So they change the Name of the company and the website, but forgot to rename Gator(R) eWallet ! Yeah, cause I'd trust these folks with any of my financial info.

Strangely enough, searching for Gator brings up www.Gator.com, which takes you to www.Claria.com, but search for Claira brings up websites about Claria headsets, I wonder how they're going to get round this.

Without any doubt in my mind, the most evil form of spyware I am personally aware of is the infamous insidious Gator. Booo, hisss!!!! I am sure there are others, but I'm sure of this: there is a special place in hell for these folks.

Hmm a shifty looking Alligator peering over a wall?

http://images.gator.com/gator/global/gator_eyes_12 5x37.gif

Not to mention that you can't uninstall gator by normal means. The %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\CMEII\ directory is hard to find if you're joe user, and oh, is that on purpose that the registry keys for gator.com don't disappear after I uninstall? Oh that's right, according to the Terms of service, those are 'enhancement technologies' and they don't necessarily get removed during the uninstall.. Interestingly enough, this information is listed under the 'Right to Remove' section in the Terms Huh!?!

I love the customer testimonial.

"I LOVE GATOR! It is the GREATEST! I love how it remembers and fills in all of my passwords at the various websites that I visit. And of course I also love how it fills in the forms for me. I also love GATOR because it is very easy to use. I learned how to use it in seconds. GATOR RULES!" -Thanks, S. Rubin, Las Vegas, Nevada

Either S. Rubin isn't aware that to "fill in" this information automatically it must, in fact, KEEP TRACK OF IT (no matter, it doesn't send THAT information to anyone, right?), or perhaps she is employed by or a partner of Gator, Inc. Either way, I think she should change her name to S. Rube.

Gator is not spyware! Gator is crap. It gets itself installed in a way that is not very ethical. It takes up valuable system resources. It sucks in a multitude of different ways. But Gator is not spyware.

These GAIN ads are displayed based on the interests of the computer user as reflected by their web surfing behavior and are not sponsored or endorsed by the web pages being viewed.

This software also occasionally displays various forms of pop up ads in a separate window on users' computer screens. These GAIN ads are displayed based on the interests of the computer user as reflected by their web surfing behavior and are not sponsored or endorsed by the web pages being viewed.

look at their front page and notice this image of the gator logo spying on you!

look at their front page and notice this image of the gator logo spying on you!

AOL allows you to get "content" that you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.
Gator allows all sorts of useful searching and ads on your computer.
MSN explorer A very nice web browser that takes over your whole web experience.
Webshots is a very nice background rotator that hogs bandwidth and proccesor time and whaterver else it does.
Weatherbug is a handy little sys-tray app that shows the weather, and watches your every move.


So if you are willing to listen to all the "help" given here on /. You will have the buggiest bulkiest computer there is.

Although some essential programs include...
xmms,Mozilla (most incarnations are great), Gimp (The best FREE image editor)
Also check out Easy URPMI for obtaining linux software.

"Built into every Mac is a utility called Keychain that remembers all your passwords for you. Of course you can get add-ons for Windows that give the same functionality for a price..."

At the price of security and privacy, you might say. gator.com

I'd settle for a worm that downloaded a kernel and loadlin.exe.

You actually don't need a worm for that. Most users aren't savvy enough to know what an ActiveX installer is so they simply "click yes". We wouldn't have the Gator problem that exists if users were just a bit more educated (or MS software wasn't so exploit-able).

If you could create a distro that installed and co-existed on an NTFS partition, you'd have a winner. Heck, you could even give users the option to "remove my windows partition" once they started using it.

IMHO - Linux on NTFS is the first step to widespread adoption. Users would be able to install it through Windows via a regular InstallShield or whatever...

I think Gator, et al, are guilty of not being completely honest with users about what they're up to.

Gator puts everything on their website, and on GAIN. How much more honest do you want them to be?

how about this idea instead, they take out gator and any other nasties they include.

they can keep the money, we'll just call it even.

Mike

Clickable link, my bad.

Yeah I'm pulling 300k/s+ off of them ... perhaps this should be mentioned to the debian mailing list, God knows I'd hate for their bandwidth to be used up.

Interesting, I went to look at www.gator.com, but the first time round I typed gator.com instead. Apparently Gator has a Debian mirror, but you can't access it from the outside. (No doubt it will disappear soon after it gets Slashdotted.)

Interesting, I went to look at www.gator.com, but the first time round I typed gator.com instead. Apparently Gator has a Debian mirror, but you can't access it from the outside. (No doubt it will disappear soon after it gets Slashdotted.)

Would this be considered a text ad? I'd say so, unless you want to classify it into a new class, like 'integrated ad.'

Gator does things similar ot this. It "watches" what you do, and presents competitor coupons and such. Aside from the fact it's annoying as all hell, it's decent adware software. They get really high click through rates, and it actually is a cool idea. When you look at a book at Amazon, it'll tell you, "IF you go to Barnes & Noble and buy this, we'll give you 5% off"

Annoys Amazon, but it sure as hell works. It's like the legal mafia of advertising.

256,000 spam emails (or DMCA violation notices, if you prefer)
160,000 banner ads
85333 pages serves of Are You Hot or Not
3,200 copies of Gator
1,066 2 minute average quality porn clips
10 pirated copies of Windows XP home edition

I can't wait for Internet2!

Just install this software. Trust me, you'll wish you had your VIC back.

That was Gator's business model over a year ago. Except they literally replaced ads on web pages that the user went to. Fortunately, the court system has consistently blocked them

Sounds like the next expansion-market for Gator if you ask me.