Spyware - General

Gator can come on to your PC in a whole variety of ways. The most common is piggy-backing itself onto another program like Kazaa or some sort of other freeware. It also has tried to install itself onto my PC through pop-up ads at message boards (mainly EZ-Boards), believe it or not, so it hides behind ads as well.

Heh this thing is soo funny and pathetic at the same time

I saw some more 'sensations computer consulting' on the web and here are some quotes:

About Ad-Aware
"destroys more valuable programs"
Just running this application once in the default mode totally destroyed my Gator eWallet, Morpheus, DivX, and iMesh, none of which are spyware, which is the ontly thing that this is supposed to get rid of. The application is very poor, and has no good warning that this is going to destroy GOOD programs. I can see why so many people are saying not to install and use it! I will actively add my voice to those that say not to use it, to my hundreds of clients. When they stop removing legitimate programs, I will then change my mind. NOW I have to do a bunch of reinstalling, and replacing of data, because of a mistake that AdWare caused. Sarcastically said, "Thanks, Adaware!"

Score given: Minimal on all counts


On Gator E-Wallet:
"Fantastic product!"

This is the best product on the net! It is easy to use, and it works every time. One person wrote that it "came" with Audio Galaxy, but it doesn't...it is completely separate. (Audio Galaxy mentions that it has GAIN, which isn't the same as Gator, and in all cases, the person must accept the GAIN for any GAIN application. If you miss that, you are not reading!) Gator fills out passwords and web forms really fast, and the information is on your own system and encrypted, so that it's safe, unlike other similar products. I tell everyone I know to download it! The only problem is that C/net only has the download for 3.1, and they are now using 4.0.

Score given: Maximum on all counts

Rather odd that he's so enthusiastic about it. I'm really insulting anyone's intelligence with that comment though, it was already obvious.

Another interesting site: http://sensations.freewebpage.org/

I don't know quite what to make of it.

Oh and I, in contrary to the people that are suckered into using GATOR will prefer to remain anonymous (except for my IP of course, but nothing in life is free)

youre one of them - definitely
and youre not the first, even microsoft sends in their lackeys into forums anonymously

AdAware gives people a list of items as an advise of what should be removed. The decision is that of the user.
As opposed to your beloved Gator company which installs it's cr@p on every box it can get it's paws on.

Have fun leaking your personal info to the Gator company,

Pieter

Senior Technical Engineer
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
Sensations Computer Consulting      
         or
The chef at Mcdonalds
(who truly needs help with web design, my eyes still hurt)

I can't be bothered with windows but i would still push any senior employee of gator down the stairs, without remorse.

Ok in simple terms, is Gator all that bad???  Personally, I have trouble remembering passwords and Gator has them stored.  I thought they were supposed to have a security feature on it.  Am I wrong?

Hi katspurr,

Try Roboform, it's spywarefree and you can import your Gator data:
http://www.roboform.com/

Regards,

Pieter

is Gator all that bad???

You may find these articles enlightening:

http://www.cexx.org/gator.htm
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Gator.html

Check your e-mail. When you sign up for a place, 99% of the time they'll send you the password. That way, you don't need any password prograns at all.