14-03-2003 07:15									#1
	Getting rid of gatorware Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Oh crap, this is what happens when you let your brother touch your computer while you're at class. He was playing some online game somewhere and the website convinced him to download and install Gator. How should I go about removing every last trace of this adware? I've heard it's pretty resilient and even unistalling it can leave pieces behind.

	14-03-2003 07:22									#2
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Spybot will do it, I think.

	14-03-2003 12:50									#3
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Well, unless you do *something* quickly you'll wake up one day and see that damn Gator logo in the arse of your pants and be asked whether you'd like to remember the password for your zipper.

Have you considered burning the 'puter?

	14-03-2003 13:00									#4
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You misspelled Gatesware.

I don't know how with Gatorware in particular, but in general Ad-Aware does pretty good in removing adware.

	14-03-2003 13:02									#5
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You should install Linux, spyware won't get installed because you'll never figure out how to do it.

	14-03-2003 13:04									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Asher You should install Linux, spyware won't get installed because you'll never figure out how to do it.

H Tower, you can find Spybot here; good luck!

	14-03-2003 13:04									#7
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You should install MacOS, spyware won't get installed because there's no point in spying on someone who shops for flowers on eBay.

Edit: If my cat didn't spill my drink those would have been consecutive posts.

	14-03-2003 13:06									#8
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Hm, sorry about that

	14-03-2003 13:07									#9
	Suffering from ads?

Har har har.

	14-03-2003 13:07									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Asher You should install Linux, spyware won't get installed because you'll never figure out how to do it.

That's what manpages, infopages, README's, HOWTO's and RFC's are for

Or shorter, RTFM!

	14-03-2003 13:07									#11
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Asher's on a roll!

Yeah, one of the spyware removing programs should get rid of that evil program.
And a free tip: BIOS password.

	14-03-2003 13:10									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Zopperoni Hm, sorry about that

quote: Originally posted by monolith94 Har har har.

	14-03-2003 13:19									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns And a free tip: BIOS password.

My dad thought he was so clever when he set a BIOS password on the family computer when I was younger (before I had my own), whenever I was grounded.

He didn't even know that the BIOS password could be overridden quite easily if you have access to the motherboard. To this day he assumes I'd hacked his passwords.

He still thinks I'm some kind of hacker and swears I'm going to be hauled off one of these days.

	14-03-2003 13:19									#14
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and if that doesn't work just reformat your harddrive. That's always my advice.

I like to clean up my hard drive every so often anyways.

	14-03-2003 13:24									#15
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quote: He didn't even know that the BIOS password could be overridden quite easily if you have access to the motherboard.

This is someone who downloaded and installed gator. I think its pretty safe to conclude that he doesn't know much about computers.

Good work on getting around your grounding.

	14-03-2003 13:28									#16
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exactly how easily can the bios password be overridden? What do I have to do to the motherboard? Remove the battery?

	14-03-2003 13:48									#17
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Yep. Take out the battery and it resets everything in the BIOS.

	14-03-2003 14:16									#18
	Put an end to popups!

this thread is becoming too geek-ish.

	14-03-2003 20:47									#19
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not really. you crack open the computer, you see one of those flat batteries, usually. take it out, wait five seconds, put it back in.

not that hard.

	14-03-2003 20:54									#20
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well, spybot seemed to work, i'll "consider" the other options. a way to override the bios password? wish i knew about that one a couple years ago.

	14-03-2003 21:31									#21
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ACTUALLy, gator is include in some programs at Download.com
Need to read, before you download a damned thing.