[kv1at3485]

This maybe old news but...

Apparently Ad-Aware no longer detects and eliminates the current versionf of Gator.

Luckily, Spybot Search & Destroy still does.

Just a heads up.

[MatthewPapa]

What do you mean no longer? Did it ever in the first place?

[Nuke]

ad-aware, gator, and gain are all things i found on dead computers when i used to be a tech. avoid that stuff like the plague.

[Arc]

Is there any reason why it doesn't? Lavasoft haven't gone and reclassified gator/gain as not adware or something daft?

[Mr. Vega]

I have heard about Gator suing some anti-spyware programs for slander (there is no concievable way they could win though, so I don't know)

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Nuke
ad-aware, gator, and gain are all things i found on dead computers when i used to be a tech. avoid that stuff like the plague.

Half the computers people call me up to 'fix' are just overloaded with that sort adware. Pretty sad, most people are just too silly to know what it's doing to their PC.

[phreak]

http://msn.com.com/2100-1104_2-5095051.html?part=msn&subj=cdf&tag=mymsn

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by Setekh


Half the computers people call me up to 'fix' are just overloaded with that sort adware. Pretty sad, most people are just too silly to know what it's doing to their PC.

**** man, I once removed 800 pieces of spyware from a computer I worked on last week.  No wonder the damn thing was crashing so much.  And of course, most of it was malware installed through the swiss cheese known as Internet Explorer.  They never even bothered to update windows.  I hate it when people just expect **** to work from the get-go without keeping anything up-to-date.  It didn't even have any AV software FFS!

[Carl]

my ad-aware doesn't even care anymore. when i scan for adware, it shows me the list of files it found, then i tell it do delete them, and it says it does, but they're still there when i scan again.

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by Carl
my ad-aware doesn't even care anymore. when i scan for adware, it shows me the list of files it found, then i tell it do delete them, and it says it does, but they're still there when i scan again.

That means theres a service running in the background or on startup restoring them.

[Corhellion]

...I beat ya all...or a friend of mine does...

He computer was slow as hell and crashing at a maddening rate...so I install spy-sweeper on it...guess how many traces it found?

...3000+ spy-ware traces...I **** you not...the bloody monster of a computer shhould be put down...he has...I think 64 megs of ram on a P2...HOW on earth the damn thing runs is a mystery for me!

[Xelion]

Has anyone heard of CTRL+F and using the registry!?

[Nuke]

has anyone heard of not to use spyware laced software

[Sandwich]

My dad was getting 20 spyware traces per week (running ad-aware once a week). Then he moved from IE to FireFox.

He came in to me the other day and said "Guess how much spyware I've been detecting after switching to FireFox."

"Zero."

[Sigma957]

I use firefox now, was getting too much spy stuff coming through while using IE.

[Nuke]

why does microsoft insist on leaving so many back doors open? they are every where. windows takes it up the a$$ almost as much as bill gates.

[karajorma]

It's cause of the way MS program their stuff. I've heard some real nightmare tales about how code gets upgraded.

From what I've heard when upgrading programs they don't actually remove the old code. They just work around it (cause they are often scared to remove the old code in case it breaks something).

So the old stuff just sits there waiting to be activated.

[Col. Fishguts]

IE security suffers from the fact, that it's integrated way tpp depp into Windows. It has access to things a browser shouldn't have. But that's what you get when you use (almost) the same program for window managing AND internet sufing.

[JR2000Z]

I don't really use S&D, but it's not a problem with Gator/GAIN as long as you know what you are downloading.

[Getter Robo G]

Hey guys I switched to firefox cause of your suggestions and bam I am back on the forum again (thank you!!) I an only surmise I got hacked via IE and the ONYL site it blocked me from getting on to was HLP Hmmm think the minions of "He who shall not be named" got mad at me?

  Anyway I did the latest virus search and found a fake program I tried to delete but it won't let me. How can I delete a file that won't let me "program is beign used by other ...ect blah" when nothing is running expect what I think is supposed to eb running in background?

  Is there a utility or procedure I can go in with a scalpel and cut it out like a tumor? It's sitting in my Dl folder for a p2p client...