Blocking Gator

vsp · 09-13-2002, 07:34 AM

For some reason, one of my computers is convinced that Gator is its bestest friend. Whenever one of those annoying "Would you like our piece-of-shit program?" pop-ups appears in an IE window, it's not kicking up a yes/no prompt box like other shitware (Precision Time Manager, for instance). Instead, it goes right to the install screens with a "Thanks for clicking YES on the previous screen" message.

By now, it's an automatic response -- Task Manager, kill the trickler process, then run Ad-Aware to wipe the stain off my hard drive. But it's annoying that it's auto-executing in the first place, as I know damn well that I've never clicked "yes" to their swill.

As far as I can tell, all of my security settings in IE 5.x are as they should be. So what am I missing?

(I know... fix #1 == don't run IE. Fix #2 == run a generic pop-up blocker that'll whack all pop-ups, but for various reasons I don't want to do that on this computer. Is there something I can set to SPECIFICALLY block Gator's droppings?)

09-13-2002, 07:34 AM	#1
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Blocking Gator For some reason, one of my computers is convinced that Gator is its bestest friend. Whenever one of those annoying "Would you like our piece-of-shit program?" pop-ups appears in an IE window, it's not kicking up a yes/no prompt box like other shitware (Precision Time Manager, for instance). Instead, it goes right to the install screens with a "Thanks for clicking YES on the previous screen" message. By now, it's an automatic response -- Task Manager, kill the trickler process, then run Ad-Aware to wipe the stain off my hard drive. But it's annoying that it's auto-executing in the first place, as I know damn well that I've never clicked "yes" to their swill. As far as I can tell, all of my security settings in IE 5.x are as they should be. So what am I missing? (I know... fix #1 == don't run IE. Fix #2 == run a generic pop-up blocker that'll whack all pop-ups, but for various reasons I don't want to do that on this computer. Is there something I can set to SPECIFICALLY block Gator's droppings?)

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