Got the gator!!!

[Network geek]

sorry if this post is in the wrong forum. but i finally got that dam gator adware. tooke me awhile, but. it was in the regedit. and i had to delete a ton of files. so thanks to all the ppl who posted on that topic...

kasey:grinthumb

 

[Vehementi]

You could have just used AdAware...all that work wasn't really necessary.

 

[DLx/P]

Veh, Ad-aware and spybot do pretty much the same thing right? I got Ad on a Win2000 machine and spybot on a XP machine, think I like Ad-aware better though.

 

[Network geek]

nope, used ad aware 6.0 all well as spybot. and did the whole "task manager thing" ad aware didnt pick up "gain_trickler" or "CMS" thanks for the input tho

kasey

 

[DLx/P]

maybe this is irrelavent but after you ended the process in task manager. Did you reboot and run Ad or spybot again and try to get rid of it then?

 

[StormBringer]

Why you guys being so harsh on this person for the way they got rid of this annoyance? I think its a good thing to be able to seek and destroy pests in this manner. If you guys learned a bit about the registry, you might feel the same way. While I don't condone mindlessly deleting keys, I do fully endorse learning everything you can about the registry, not only can you rid yourself of pesky things like this without a third party utility sucking down resources, but you can also optimize Windows through the registry.

Don't get me wrong, these anti-spyware apps are useful and effective, but don't discourage people from learning something. It is not a bad thing to do something "the hard way".

Originally posted by DLx/P
Veh, Ad-aware and spybot do pretty much the same thing right? I got Ad on a Win2000 machine and spybot on a XP machine, think I like Ad-aware better though.

Yea, they do the same thing, though one will sometimes miss something the other might catch.

*Note* Don't go mucking with the registry if you don't know what you are doing. If you do want to learn about it, then there are many guides to help you.

 

[Network geek]

man u guys are rough on this site!! lol yea i tried that as well, and i got the idea to fix it. off this site!! but i couldnt seem to find that thread, o well guess we got a new one.

 

[Network geek]

hey can anyone tell me how i can get to my member setting, and get rid of the whole "them emailing me everytime someone replies to a post i make???

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

There's "user cp"-button near the top. From there you'll find "Edit Options".

 

[DLx/P]

Why you guys being so harsh on this person for the way they got rid of this annoyance? I think its a good thing to be able to seek and destroy pests in this manner. If you guys learned a bit about the registry, you might feel the same way.

Umm, did I miss something here? Don't beleive I was being "harsh" at all.