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kain

they have gone too far this time, and it needs to stop NOW!

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i was just sitting here just now and a window pops up. wtf?? it dont look like no normal advertising. its a message window. a windows message window. it seems that someone or kazaa has given out my ip and now i am getting an advertisement for just stupid and random things.
i swear the internet is getting worse and worse every damn day.

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Ctrl-Alt-Del and quit the application "Gmt". Go into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Gmt and delete Gmt.exe. Do not use the Gator uninstaller; it's just a dummy. Next time you boot your computer, when Windows starts looking for Gmt, tell it to stop and it won't look anymore.

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Deathman said:

or you can always use this

Yes, that's a very good anti-spyware program, and you don't have to spend an hour looking for individual spyware components and then delete them.

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Also, if you are using Win2k/XP, disable the Messenger service (it's not MSN Messenger, btw).

"Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services", find the Messenger service, stop it, right-click and go to properties and set it to disabled.

For an office environment it's a good thing because you can use it to send messages to other users and stuff, but for the home it's useless and it's also probably how you got that popup.

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Yes, I've found Ad-aware to be efficient and reliable. Just one thing: if you have Gunman Chronicles on your hard-disk, Ad-aware will find a subfolder called ..\rewolf\sound\gator and offer to delete it. You should ask it not to.

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Heh...i actually got 3 good popups the other day...all for Metroid Fusion...funny, I was on the official star wars site at the time *shrugs*

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Exactly the same day than Kain, I had to suffer me too from Gator...
All my system was hacked, and a bunch of various windows were always opening by themselves, without my intervention... Even when I was closing my connection, I was reconnected after a short time!
Wow!
I have used Ad-aware... and Gator was found: cookies, entries in my registry, changes in my system,....
After its use, all is fine now, but what I understand is that it's impossibke to be on the net without an antivirus, a mail checker like "Spamkiller" and a firewall!!!
What a pity!

It is impossible to ban Gator from Internet?!?

[edit] I'm sorry, but I wrongly pressed "New thread" instead of "Reply"!!! [/edit] Sorry! :(

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I hate it when that happens. You know, way to fix this problem is to get rid of the 'Post New Thread' option when you're looking at individual posts within a particular thread, and just have the 'Post Reply' option there. Of course, keep the option in the thread list where it should be.

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Jive said:
[edit] I'm sorry, but I wrongly pressed "New thread" instead of "Reply"!!! [/edit] Sorry! :(

Fixed.

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I remember a while back there was a spyware program that searched your hard drive and attempted to delete Ad-aware from your computer. That's when they are getting downright nasty. To actually delete a program you installed (and maybe paid for) without your permission should be considered as illegal as a virus.

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There are two things I simply don't understand in all this:
1) Why spyware/scumware isn't illegal.
2) Why anti-virus programs don't tackle it too.

Personally, I keep Ad-aware up-to-date and run it regularly, and have my security settings in IE set very high - nothing enabled unless there is a specific need (and even then only temporarily). Paranoia? Maybe, but as FirebrandX points out, these things are getting nastier by the day.

I stumbled upon what looks like a useful spyware messageboard:
http://boards.cexx.org/spyware/

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Nah, it's pretty easy to install KaZaA without that crap... Plus, why isn't it illegal? Well, it finances that special need to download all sorts of goodies from the internet.

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FirebrandX said:

I remember a while back there was a spyware program that searched your hard drive and attempted to delete Ad-aware from your computer. That's when they are getting downright nasty. To actually delete a program you installed (and maybe paid for) without your permission should be considered as illegal as a virus.

Wasn't that Kazaa?

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Bwahaha, that image makes me laugh out loud every time I see it. No self-respecting computer user that actually knows something about the Internet would believe it. But I don't doubt there are idiots out there who click the ad. I just wonder where the hell it takes you; do they offer to disable your IP address or something?

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What's more pathetic: Pop-up ads that look like "helpful" utilities, or the suckers who click on them?

The local newspaper has pop-ups for an app that will "Look For Porn On Your Computer!" I'm wondering how it actually works; sure, it could always scan your browser history and cache, but anyone with half a brain would clear those, and I doubt it could recognize hentai graphics files.

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Those stupid pop-ups that say "You are the 90834769834769928375983275th visitor to this site! Click here for your prize!" are pretty stupid too. Refresh them and they just pop out another random number.

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that is why i have been useing linux for my internet for the last 6 months, i have not gotten any popups yet or the spyware shit, cause it is usally made for windows. however on another system i use a few other programs that block pop ups. one i think is add blocker, if that is the correct name.

i admit spyware and shit like that should be made illegal, should be considered worse than a virus. another thing i hate is a small program inserted onto the hard drive that runs a popup. when u get online it will update its add(slowing down the connection for dial up users) around an hour os disconnecting the add will be flashed on the screen as a pop up. i found this program on my dads computer about a year ago, it was for a xxx site(s). it hid in his windows system32 folder

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IMJack said:

The local newspaper has pop-ups for an app that will "Look For Porn On Your Computer!" I'm wondering how it actually works

I remember one web site that claimed to tell you whether you had too much porn on your computer, too little or "just the right amount"(!). It didn't actually do anything of the sort, of course, but if you were stupid enough to click on it, it always said "You have too much porn".

It then went on to explain that it (of course) had no idea how much porn you had, but if your reaction to its claim was something like "Oh my God! Maybe other people know too.", then you probably did have too much. If you just thought "What a load of nonsense", then you probably didn't.

Anyway, I wonder what "just the right amount of porn" is.

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What I do first and foremost is use The Proxomitron, which stops pop-ups, banner ads, status bar scrolling text, anything. It comes with tons of default filters, and if you're so inclined you can even make your own. I did grab Ad-Aware awhile ago, but I haven't updated the definitions since I grabbed it, so I'll do that now.

Preventive measures are always the best. Be sure of what you're installing before you do so, so your chances of adding spyware to your system are minimal.

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FirebrandX said:

I remember a while back there was a spyware program that searched your hard drive and attempted to delete Ad-aware from your computer. That's when they are getting downright nasty. To actually delete a program you installed (and maybe paid for) without your permission should be considered as illegal as a virus.


That was Radlight's Dixv codec software IIRC. The developers later said something like that since Ad-ware was just as bad as P2P programs and that it "hurt" developers who put in spyware, and since it was their software they could screw with your comp as they saw fit.

After a clearly overwhelming display of disgust and posts on how Ad-aware was nothing like they claimed it was in their forums, they retracted their erarlier comments.

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