Gator download pop-up

[Snotty]

Hmm. I just caught gator. I got the source of the page that causes gator to pop-up, but all it says on this page is 'please wait'. The code causes it to pop-up under the bottom of your screen, and I think it has an auto timer to shut itself after.

About two seconds before gator pop-ed up I got this ad, but I closed it straight away, so I dont know what it was advertising. When I try to open it now, it just auto shuts my browser. My history has this ad as happening the same minute the gator poped up. Also the number of visits to this site co-incide with the number of visits to the webpdp.gator site.

http://z1.adserver.com/w/cp.x;rid=25;tid=2;ev=1;dt=3;ac=7;c=817;

Interestingly enough, the images.adflow site that gator opens after you close it is giving 404 errors. Are these the ads you have stopped for the time being?


This is the source code that causes gator to pop up. You need to rename it to a .html ending to have the full gator experience.

[Asmodean]

I just got gatored again. Same procedure as every time. I wish we could tie z1.adserver to something

Snotty: From which URL did you get that sourcecode??

Asmodean

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Snotty
This is the source code that causes gator to pop up. You need to rename it to a .html ending to have the full gator experience.

My God! Someone actually downloaded Snotty's link inorder to experience Gator?!? So, who was sadistic enough (or should I say bold enough) to try it? Did you rename the file to a .html ending?

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Asmodean
I just got gatored again. Same procedure as every time. I wish we could tie z1.adserver to something
Asmodean

Well, my last attachment directly ties z1.adserver to Gator...but Dan has been silent concerning the "smoking gun."

[Snotty]

I didnt think to get the url at the time, and none of the links in my history will take me to it. I will make sure to get it next time I see it.

[Snotty]

http://webpdp.gator.com/v3/webpdp_v3_plugin.php?yic=HIC_RydiumINT

that was the url of the source page. I used ad-aware about 1 hour before and all I had been doing was browsing poly.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Why would you do that?

for some reason I cannot fathom paying over $100 for an operating system.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dissident


for some reason I cannot fathom paying over $100 for an operating system.

Neither can I.

[geeslaka]

Neither can I.

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
your windows style is... err, nice

do you have a tendeny to watch your neighbour's children play?

eh?

[Ben Kenobi]

some of us still use win98

It works fine, I don't see a need to upgrade.

Before I got my new computer I used Win 95.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by geeslaka
Neither can I.

You couldn't fathom paying a cent for your OSes.

[Urban Ranger]

Extracted this URL from Snotty's script:

http://images.ad-flow.com/sam/OF-INT.html

So is ad-flow the culprit?

[Snotty]

I think thats the address of the ad that pops up after you close gator. It would make sense that they pop up an ad from their company.

Is there a possibility they put another companys ad in as a red herring? It seems pretty crazy to me to be advertising for someone else..

[Scouse Gits]

Just to confirm - Gator is still with us - from a blank window with rydium.tmpl as the only readable bit ...