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MrDetermination
April 20th, 2002, 02:01
I'm pretty sure it was this site. I've only been to one other domain in the past hour or so and when I clicked over to here a pop up opened that I couldn't bring to front (just a "..." for a title). Then a software installation screen dialog box came up and asked me if I'd like to install gator.

Of course I declined and dipped my laptop in holy water immediately.

Then I farted in Gator's general direction.

I just thought you'd like to know.

IE 6
Fully Patched
Relatively clean cache
Win2k

Edit: The other domain was arstechnica.infopop.net and I'm like 99% sure it wasn't them.
Ketil
April 20th, 2002, 02:50
you know, Gator is nothing but spyware:happy:
pj64er
April 20th, 2002, 03:52
dude, thats why he didnt install it.
Eagle
April 20th, 2002, 04:13
I hate Gator, but more than anything I absolutely hate that mouse cursor program that keeps trying to install itself without asking first. However, I've never encountered Gator on this website. I think it must have been somewhere else.
Slougi
April 20th, 2002, 05:07
It might have been one of those exit pop-ups maybe?
Martin
April 20th, 2002, 18:48
I've never seen anything like that, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the persons browsing the network the most. :)
flow``
April 20th, 2002, 22:28
absolutely hate that mouse cursor program that keeps trying to install itself without asking first

Comet Curses? i havent seen that in quite a while now..
CpU MasteR
April 21st, 2002, 07:36
Originally posted by flow``


Comet Curses? i havent seen that in quite a while now..

rofl... I hate that too
flow``
April 21st, 2002, 07:56
erm.. i meant comet curser :P
Eagle
April 22nd, 2002, 00:33
Lets not forget Bonzai Buddy, that is not only spyware but if you try to uninstall it, it will trash your windows installation. I used to work at a college computer lab and people were always installing that. We had to re-ghost the entire system whenever it happened.
Ketil
April 22nd, 2002, 01:45
not to talk about WebHancer, Flyswat and all the others. The program Ad-Aware is good for finding and removing the advertising parasites. www.lavasoft.de
Renegade
May 1st, 2002, 13:41
the bonzai buddy is half-dead, paralysed and twitching in a corner, under the watchful gaze of six armored guards with M4 Carbines and four soldiers in 30 metre high guard towers 100 metres away armed with H&K PS1s.

oh...and the whole cage is covered with barb wire.