At 10:29 AM 8/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>My daughter downloaded an upgraded her iMesh program. Along with the upgrade
>came a program called GATOR. This thing is supposed to remember passwords,
>compare prices on travel sites etc.
>
>I found the damn thing to be completely annoying. Every time I tried to open
>a .jpg file it immediately dropped it to the bottom of the screen. Once into
>one of my e-mail accounts, I wasn't able to access the other unless I
>completely logged off the internet and reconnected. There were also
>numerous GATOR pop ups as well as pop ups from other offers and services
>showing up at random times. It was much like the Microsoft paperclip nudge.
>
>Yesterday, I was in the office of a business associate. His secretary spent
>the entire day trying to get a program back on line that they use to
>calculate costs for large projects. Later in the afternoon I mentioned to
>her the problems I had with GATOR. She looked and it was there too. We
>un-installed GATOR and everything worked fine.
>
>Me thinks that the insides of gators should be batter dipped and deep fried
>and the outside crafted into fine wallets and belts. I sure don't want a
>GATOR mucking around inside my computer!
>
>Larry Steckel
GATOR is blatant 'spy-ware.' I advise any of you running PC's (I'm sorry,
but I don't know of an equivalent for M@#intoshes) to download and
periodically run a program called 'Ad-aware' from Lavasoft. You would be
amazed at all of the junk that you pick up over time. You can get it from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Your computer will thank you.
Paul Parkanzky NMRJock
parkanz1@msu.edu
Michigan State University
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