Gator - Where Does It Come From?

&^%$**&$#&* ards!

[austtr]

Both my PC and my son's PC (separate houses) have started delivering unwanted, unsolicited offensive trash ads. A quick look through the startup tasks shows a couple of unrecognised files which show a referenece to Gator. If memory serves me correctly, this is an ad server which got some bad press awhile back.

It seems that to get rid of it you need to delete the application that it came bundled with. I have no idea what that is.... can anyone shed some light on getting this garbage off the machines?

[Laisha]

You'll want something like SpyBot Search and Destroy or Adaware.

[jdMorgan]

austtr,

Get LavaSoft's AdAware and SpyBot Search and Destroy - Both freeware applications to remove this kind of scumware. They're easy to find using search.

Jim

[austtr]

many thanks....

[Jane_Doe]

One of my friends just called me about getting adult content pop-ups on the family computer. (He has a teenage daughter who downloads a lot of music.) We ran ad-aware on his PC and he had 190 suspicious programs on there! Ad-aware cleaned them all up and stopped the pop-ups.