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PeeWee
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Webshots and Gator

My wife has run webshots on her computer forever and never had an issue like this before. When she tries to load a picture from the website she gets a warning from Spybot that gator is trying to load. When she tells spybot to go ahead and block gator she gets bumped off the site. Has there be a collusion of the two or would that be a false positive?
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permalink · 2004-11-03 20:30:58 · Reply to this
Mele20
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Re: Webshots and Gator

Webshots Desktop software has always been spyware.
permalink · 2004-11-03 21:07:09 · Reply to this

PeeWee
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Re: Webshots and Gator

It has never before and is still not indicated as such by AdAware or SpyBot. The first possible association may be this spybot warning associated with Gator.
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permalink · 2004-11-03 21:12:56 · Reply to this

sashwa
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 PeeWee, I use webshots but I hadn't downloaded any photo's lately. So I just went there and downloaded a wallpaper and had no problem with SpyBot. I ran it after the download to make sure there was nothing there. Maybe she picked Gator from someplace else?

What picture was she trying to download?

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permalink · 2004-11-03 21:47:15 · Reply to this

PeeWee
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1 edit		 Todays daily with the dogs. But now we get the error, that it cannot find a file in temp. internet files and cannot load picture, with any download attempt.
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permalink · 2004-11-03 22:23:41 · Reply to this

sashwa
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Re: Webshots and Gator

Okay...I'll go see if I can download it...I'll be back.

Okay I tried but it's a Premium picture and I don't have a Premium membership. Maybe there's someone around here with a premium acct who uses Spybot could try the picture for you.

Sorry,
sash
permalink · 2004-11-03 22:29:54 · Reply to this

NanDog
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 I'm kinda like sashwa. Have used webshots as wallpaper for quite a few years but haven't dl'ed any photos in a long while and not a premium account. Have never had any problems with it and has never been picked up as spyware as Mele20 alleges (and that's with NIS2003, AdawareSEPlus, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster, TrojanHunter, et al...) YMMV
permalink · 2004-11-04 01:06:51 · Reply to this
Mele20
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 Maybe it has changed since I used it years ago. It had to have been AdAware that picked it up because it was before Spybot existed and I think the only application I had that found adware/spyware back then was AdAware. I don't recall what was flagged...I don't think it was Gator but I don't remember.
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