I knew Gator was spyware but...

[meow]

I didn't know how bad it was. What about this for stealing a website's real estate?

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6897620.html?tag=tp_pr

[Giancarlo]

Old news, I knew this for months.
Download Ad-aware from download.com, and you will find dozens of spyware. I found twenty spy ware elements, I then was surprised. It will eliminate all elements of spyware. Don't even think of deleting the program, because it will not delete the spy-ware elements.

[meow]

Eh - my point was what it does to the websites, not that it's spyware.

Lavasoft lives here: http://www.lavasoft.de/ and isn't that accurate at all. It mainly scans for certain company names in file names ad i the registry. Something you ca do yourself. It can't distinguish between a text file that happens to have the "wrong" name and a program.

[roblev]

hey GC, i ran the proggie! i found 133 so called "spyware" proggies ( or files ). Hahahahah, it detected my cookies as spyware.... i guess now paranoia sets in. I gotta do one of those fresh from scratch restarts again anyways. :jump:

[Giancarlo]

I trust Ad-aware more... it finds the files that are related to spy-ware.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by roblev
hey GC, i ran the proggie! i found 133 so called "spyware" proggies ( or files ). Hahahahah, it detected my cookies as spyware.... i guess now paranoia sets in. I gotta do one of those fresh from scratch restarts again anyways. :jump:

133? OH MY! Clean up time... :eek:

[Coolin]

I found 9.
But they were all cookies and .txt files.

[}:8) Supermoo]

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[meow]

Nice someone can read. ;)
There's also a thing called TopText...I had a collection of URLs on these apps but lost it.

Hey, moderator cow! I think I've found out your secrete. :D
:cow:I'm a Cow (http://www.riddleme.com/html/cow.html):cow:

[LastActionHero]

Yeah this Gator and Toptext are runining webmasters sleep. We have won the first round though. Truste removed it's privacy certificate from KazAa.com. First of the many blows to come for Ezula!

[coolguy23]

that i'm a cow flash was funny!

[roblev]

Originally posted by LastActionHero
Yeah this Gator and Toptext are runining webmasters sleep. We have won the first round though. Truste removed it's privacy certificate from KazAa.com. First of the many blows to come for Ezula!

that's a good thing to know. how much does it cost to get software digitally signed?

[Coolin]

Originally posted by meow
There's also a thing called TopText...Yeah... We've heard... :rolleyes:

Anyone who reads General Discussion knows ;)

[meow]

I didn't know it was the same thing as this Ezula deal. I didn't read General. You see I heard about this a weeeeek ago. At least! ;):p

[}:8) Supermoo]

Originally posted by meow
Hey, moderator cow! I think I've found out your secrete. :D
:cow:

lol, funny clip Meow! Although I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon! :eek2:

[Coolin]

I'm pretty sure you'd want to ;)

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by roblev


that's a good thing to know. how much does it cost to get software digitally signed?

I donno about software but Truste's cost's are below


Your Company's
Annual Revenue Annual Licensee Fee
-------------------- ------------------------
$0 - $1 million $299*
$1 - $5 million $399*
$5 - $10 million $599*
$10 - $25 million $1,999*
$25 - $50 million $2,999*
$50 - $75 million $3,999*
$75 million and over $6,999*

[Koolguy]

Thats really not that expensive when you think about it.