 JamesClark
join:2001-11-03
Baltimore, MD
|  I Like Gator
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RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs:
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| I feel left out. Either that or I have rather hygienic surfing habits.
Ad-aware has not picked up anything for several months (and I just did the latest) and I have never seen gator and the other junk get dropped onto my HD.
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_BigFatLiar_
@pacbell.n
| Pay the Piper Having everything you do on the Internet monitored by a corporation you know nothing about, just to get a few convenient features, seems like a pretty big price to pay. It looks like Gator is using the term "helpful" rather loosely. Helpful to whom? Anyone see the movie "needful things"? | |
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AndySuth
@shawcable.net | FARK YEAH die gator die Yes, i couldnt agree more. I work in IT and gator is one of the worst dam progs out there. grrr.....  | |
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ChicagoCPA
join:2001-12-02
Mokena, IL | As Embarrassing as it is to say, I accidently ... Installed Gator, while reading the NY Times or WSJ online, of course I removed it immediately. That damn screen is confusing as hell, and I even shut down my pc when it came up rather than continue. Reboot and there it was. | |
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Kawaii
@telia.com |  Use Mozilla.
Site: »www.mozilla.org/ | |
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Sanguinius
@ac.uk
|  Sorry For Cross-Posting But...
Pls read e-mail text below this msg and see if you can offer any advice as to what might have gone on with this scenario. I'm trying to help a friend out (only caught this msg forum through searching, so replies to benglasgow AT hotmail DOT COM).
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
MSg follows -
"Hey B.,
I'm in a wee spot of bother at the mo, I hope you can help me out. The phone bill for the landline arrived yesterday. It has 50 quid of premium rate calls on it, which I am being accused of making. I didn't call them in fact I haven't used the house phone at all since I got my mobile. I reckon it was some sort of trojan attached to the broadband but Graham has said that broadband cannot connect to a voice line and he didn't make the calls and his girlfriend isn't like that so I must have done it. He also says that even if it was a trojan - I must have downloaded it. As if he has never downloaded anything onto the computer - he had twice the mp3s I had. I'm so frustrated!
I remember reading something in the times about people having their broadband redirected to a premium number without them agreeing to the download, it happened in the background while they were just surfing normally. They ended up with an enormous phone bill and caroline was on the computer sometime that month when the virus checker found and removed a trojan. But Graham has asked one of his workmates who says that's impossible with broadband (yeah, a computer expert with more clout than the times who works in a restaurant?) I can't download the article to prove it because you have to subscribe to the times site. Why should I have to prove my innocence in the first place?
So the issue is he wants 50 quid off me to cover the bill or I am to move out! So I am wondering if a: you can collaborate my theory in any way and
b: you know anyone I can move in with because I don't know if I can stay in a flat where I'm being accused of things seemingly because I'm the easiest person to blame.
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