I do not believe it..!

[Shi Huangdi]

what would be nice is to see the online community do some vigilante justice and start DNSing Gator's website.

[Sikander]

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[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
what would be nice is to see the online community do some vigilante justice and start DNSing Gator's website.

You mean DoS

[Sarxis]

This is a big 'whatever' on the frontlines: spyware, SPAM, and pop-ups/unders are all crap to the average shmoe. I suggest we call it all 'Crapware' and be done with it.

[Harovan]

I thought America fights the war on terrorism?

Why doesn't Gator get bombed?

Or the RIAA?

Or Bill Gates?

[Q Classic]

bill gates isn't a terrorist.
the riaa owns a lot of congresspeople.

now gator, on the other hand...

[Dinner]

WIn XP has a system restore feature which let's you restore the registry to a previous date and/or time. On one occation I installed a share ware program which installed gator (and no the bastards didn't declare they were installing spyware) and I successfully removed it from my registry using Win XP's system restore feature.

[alva]

They will simply invent a new term to describe Gator and adaware, etc will then label it as such.

Sure, but it is a first step to "legalise" it.

[Az]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


You mean DoS

[child of Thor]

As long as the spybot/adaware software can still detect the stuff and stop it doing its evil games, then i wont mind if they have to call it 'really helpfull advice pop up software' - most people will know what it does, and that its bad.

Just a thought but if you use something like partition magic to keep a clean install image of your pc, when you reimage it you do lose all the spyware stuff dont you?

Its a shame we cant sue companies like gator for putting stuff on our computers that can cause crashes etc.

[Q Classic]

http://www.gator.com/

is now

http://www.claria.com/

they're trying to distance themselves from the spyware they sell. dirty rotten scumbags.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Heh. From that site:

GAIN Publishing® - GAIN Publishing distributes a variety of popular software applications and owns and operates the GAIN Network, the world’s largest in-context behavioral advertising network. The GAIN Network helps keep many popular software applications and websites free in exchange for displaying online advertising based on your online surfing behavior. The following four products are produced and distributed by GAIN Publishing.

That's one way of putting it, I suppose......

[Urban Ranger]

behavioral advertising

How to get people steamed, fast

[Nubclear]

Oh, and before anyone else does it....

Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware. Claria is spyware.

[Q Classic]

tass.

they're website is nicer this time around.

still, even after you can it, sell it as art, and then have someone gold-plate it... it's still ****.