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Gator tried to infiltrate my browser!

MrDetermination

MrDetermination

New member
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.
 
Eagle

Eagle

aka Alshain
Moderator
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.
 
Martin

Martin

Active member
Administrator
I've never seen anything like that, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the persons browsing the network the most. :)
 
Eagle

Eagle

aka Alshain
Moderator
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.
 
R

Renegade

Wearer of Army Boots
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.
 
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