I want to get rid of GATOR!!!

[Evil Panda]

How can I get rid of GATOR?? That stupid thing that pops up advertisement from your taskbar! I hate it! I must have installed it without properly reading the small print of some program. Help me get rid of it, because I'm maaad :mad: :mad:

I can't seem to find any reference to GATOR in my startup, msconfig or installed applications.

[[Corporal Dan]]

Get Lavasoft Ad-Aware 5


www.download.com

[fastguy94416]

why did you install gator?

[volt]

It happened to me twice. I kept clicking next not knowing what's the next dialog, and that's how it Gator got installed on my machine hehe

[[Corporal Dan]]

Ad aware makes all your probs go away

[volt]

I find it quite good. By the way this thread should be under Software forums ;)

[[Corporal Dan]]

*PLUG*

I would move it if I were a mod...

*hint hint*

Please, Mike, Pick me!

[volt]

Dude comeon lol, that's getting pretty annoying now :rolleyes:
I think we all know by now how much you would like to be a mod :)

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by d1rX
It happened to me twice. I kept clicking next not knowing what's the next dialog, and that's how it Gator got installed on my machine hehe

lol, that's what happens to you when you don't read the agreements and just keep clicking :p

[volt]

Yea, it's more like a routine though somtimes it's no good hah

[StealthHawk]

i hear ya. i am weary of doing the "fast installation" with software that is known for including spyware though.

[DaveW]

Ad Aware is a util that everyone should have on their "essential utilities" CD.

[[Corporal Dan]]

spyware has made ME more careful of what i install, thats for sure

[volt]

gator is actually easy to remove...there was one that i couldnt remove at all, though i dont remeber the website

[vampireuk]

I hate spyware with a passion:mad: for some reason I had gator installed on the computer, I think it had something to do with my brother ¬.¬

[NeoGeo]

no its down to divx 5!! the standard download package contains adware (including gator) just dont use the standard download suggestion, use the other free one on the divx site... :)

[|JuiceZ|]

yea Adware is inching its way up to the top of my list of most essential utils, I love it. The only downside is that I let it break some of my p2p proggies like morpheus, grokster and even flashget. Guess I'll pay a 'lil more attention next time b4 removing all those reg keys :D

[VeritechK7]

yeah I too recommend adaware . and plus dont' install any apps that carry gator ..that's my pledge ..regardless of how much it is liked to get away from gator ..gotta get a way from gator infested applications

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by VeritechK7
yeah I too recommend adaware . and plus dont' install any apps that carry gator ..that's my pledge ..regardless of how much it is liked to get away from gator ..gotta get a way from gator infested applications

too many of them and too many people who use them. most of them probably don't even realize they installed Gator software

[VeritechK7]

Unfortunately very true ... mY brother never knew that kazaa would have things running in the background till his friend saw that counterstrike was bogging down i looped through his taskmanager and what do you know? some process named bvt.exe and other gator associated processes :(

[de><ta]

lousy nosey GAIN.... hate it. It keeps tripping of my firewall. Damn.

[saturnotaku]

I absolutely swear by Ad-Aware. No computer system today should be without it. I think it would even be worth paying for, but Lavasoft is nice enough to give us almost complete functionality for free. :)

[volt]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
I absolutely swear by Ad-Aware. No computer system today should be without it. I think it would even be worth paying for, but Lavasoft is nice enough to give us almost complete functionality for free. :)

ditto :)
im lovin it!

[Toad]

For anyone using software which demands the presence of a CyDoor DLL (i.e. Grokster, Kazaa, etc.) and doesn't include the dummy DLL in the installation package (Kazaa Lite), you can go ahead with the Ad-Aware removal of the real spyware, then place the dummy CD_CLINT.DLL file from CEXX Labs (http://www.cexx.org/dummies.htm) where the program expects to find it (in the case of FastTrack clients, in the main program directory).
Anyone curious about CyDoor's operation can visit this link (http://www.cexx.org/cydoor.htm).

[Gator]

(me sniffles) Doesn't anyone love me anymore? Sniff Sniff

LOL... get rid of Gator

yes, Lavasoft AdAware does the job quite nicely