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Calling dog crap a rose doesn't change the stink....
I have removed a piece of software called "Gator Password" which supposedly "remembers" your online passwords for you. It was reported by my Port Blocker to be trying to get back to a Gator server. Was this with the information on passwords that it had gathered? I'll have to investigate deeper.

I have removed a piece of Gator software called "Gator Wallet" that wanted to collect all my financial information like credit card numbers and probably other things as well like PIN numbers but I can't be sure. And my Port Blocker told me it was trying to reach a Gator server. Was this with the information on credit card numbers and PINs that it had gathered? I'll have to investigate deeper.

Oh, wait. I can't investigate deeper as that would be reverse engineering and that would violate the DMCA now wouldn't it. So I have nothing but Gator's word that their software isn't spyware. Wow... I'm sure I can "TRUST" them......

Oh, yeah. I don't know how that software got onto my system. I never saw a EULA or any other agreement. So I didn't agree to allow it onto my system..... If it hadn't been for my port blocker complaining about an unauthorized attempt to connect to a Gator server I wouldn't even have known it was there.

And Gator should pay me for the time it took to remove their "unwanted and unagreed to" crap off my system. It took six hours of my time to track it all down and destroy it.

Now I block it where I can and I don't allow anything onto my system that has even a hint of adware or spyware about it. That camel got into my tent once and almost pushed me out. It ain't getting in again.

I could call a pile of dog crap a rose but it doesn't change the stink any.....
Posted by: Sceptical Observer   Posted on: 10/23/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Gator Spyware  Nigel Johnstone | 10/22/03
re: See you later, anti-Gators?  Lil_Jig | 10/22/03
Exactly -- to Gator, "NO" means "Yes"  r7di697 | 10/23/03
Call a spade a spade  voska | 10/22/03
reply to above msg  lmaxwell | 10/22/03
ethics  Bill4 | 10/22/03
Emperor's New Clothes  bmh129 | 10/23/03
Spammers, Scammers, and Gator  r7di697 | 10/23/03
Try small claims court  outoftheboxpcs@... | 10/26/03
Gator is trash  skeptic tank | 10/22/03
Gator's application  caktus | 10/22/03
gators sneek-up and bite!  caktus | 10/22/03
Do the right thing, because it is the right thing to do  lmaxwell | 10/22/03
Gator should be sued  Tron001 | 10/22/03
Gator is so spyware!  Uncoveror | 10/22/03
Designed to trick people into "accepting"  PW_z | 10/22/03
Just alter ttactic, say Gator offers too many pluses for average users  FilledOut | 10/22/03
Gator isn't spyware...  JoeMama_z | 10/22/03
GATOR is spyware  Suicida| | 10/26/03
GATOR IS SPYWARE.  d_jedi | 10/22/03
Definition of Spyware  bmh129 | 10/23/03
Gator blah!  DarbyOhara | 10/23/03
Because...  BitTwiddler | 10/23/03
because  Bill4 | 10/23/03
Ok, so we just create a new term. PitaWare  BitTwiddler | 10/23/03
Calling dog crap a rose doesn't change the stink....  Sceptical Observer | 10/23/03
Calling dog crap a rose doesn't change the stink....  first last | 10/23/03
Dirty little secret  Hamlet_z | 10/23/03
not all  ryusen | 10/23/03
do not call; do not spam; do not spy  whocares_z | 10/23/03
SpyWare, AdWare, MalWare  NT Admin | 10/23/03
Agreed  r7di697 | 10/23/03
Location: Toilet Occupant: Gatorware  r7di697 | 10/23/03
Call Gator a urinal disc and that'd be closer  FilledOut | 10/23/03
Gator is full of s**t  dobosconsulting | 10/25/03
block thier entire domain  Suicida| | 10/26/03
Gator--No Thanks, I'll Use RoboForm  tshillam | 06/30/04
Class Action Anyone?  Urbandream | 07/07/04
spyware  wolfinsheep | 07/07/04
The issue at hand  john_in_NC | 02/05/05

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