gozilla,spyware and freezing win98

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i just had worst experience with gozilla,well with some stuff u get with it.

i installed it cause i like feats u can get to help u dl things......but as soon as i connected to the net ZoneAlarm started to show me that 3...not 1,but 3 programms are trying to connect also.....i closed my connection,look around and found them all in gozilla directory.....offcourse i wasn't informed during the install that i gonna get 3 programms that will try to connect to internet without me knowing.

i deleted them.....cleaned registry ( partially ) and continued to use my comp.......BUT >> as soon as i turned my comp off and tryed to start it later windows began to freeze while loading....it's win98 btw.....i used safe mode,looked and found nothing wrong......so i assumed it had to be something i installed or deleted recently >> gozilly offcourse.....i cleaned ragistry as much as i could,looked in .ini files ,whatever came to my mind i did......unistalled gozilla also.......problem remained.....

last thing was to re-install gozilla......so i did and guess what >> no more freezing.

i don't know howto get rid of that damn thing without formating my c drive so i'll prolly do it......after all there isn't any data on it,it's only big enough for win98 and few smaller programs,but it is 2-3 hours work........

i hate when there is stuff installed without asking and knowing......my comp is MY PROPERTY and stunts like this really p*** me off:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

i had to post this story cause ppl should be aware about stuff like this......

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ohhh.....comp freezes after u delete file >> goiehlp.dll
u can delete those damn programs,but this needs more work.

[Smokey]

Isnt there something you can untick on the install about intaslling other programs like gator? Also there is always getright and other dl managers if getright is causing problems ;)

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u know......it isn't spyware that got me p*****, i know they are price for "free" software and i have firewall that doesn't allow them to do their dirty tricks (i hope it does that;) ), but that damn file which caused freezing of win on startup.......

i mean i uninstall software and damn thing leave files on my comp (which is nothing new), but i afteri delete those files,my comp stop to work properly >> that part i don't like.

i googled that file and saw that it is supposed to stay on your comp AFTER you uninstall gozilla....

i don't know if other ppl had same trouble,or it is specific to my case,but i just wanted for ppl to see what happened to me.

[Nemesis]

Originally posted by Smokey
Isnt there something you can untick on the install about intaslling other programs like gator? Also there is always getright and other dl managers if getright is causing problems ;)

Yes - if you do a Custom install of Gozilla, you can choose to leave the annoying bits behind.