See You Later, Anti-gators?

[UKMan]

Originally posted by Wednesday@27 October 2003 - 16:21
I agree with your sentiments about shareware UKMan, but, as Shareholder points out, in future, Gator and like corporations may not be counted as "spyware organisations" and thus will be able to freely invade everyone's computer without permission.

Some interesting articles are to be found on the following site.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/ads/gator

Yes - i understand the argument but thx for pointing it out to me anyway

By the way - NOBODY can invade your PC without your permission. Even if the statements and rules of downloading are sometimes diffuse and hard to understand or even find, they are allways there, it still takes YOUR participation to agree. Having said that, i have to admit that the rules of combat are sometimes missused

Peace
UKMan

[Wednesday]

Sorry. I didn't mean to be patronising.

[kazaalite911]

i hate it when my g/f uses my laptop. i have virus protection, pop-up blocker, ad-removal programs, but when she plays games on gamesville or even yahoo, somehow(i haven't checked thuroughly yet) gator gets on from a clock program or calendar program. wtf do i need that for??

so point is...if you dont want stupid programs like gator to get on your pc, don't let anyone else use it, unless they too are knowledgable of it.

[UKMan]

Originally posted by Wednesday@27 October 2003 - 18:30
Sorry.  I didn't mean to be patronising.

Hey - i honestly didnt take it as that - lol I thanked you for pointing the article out to me - thx again.

Welcome to this forum by the way

Peace
UKMan

[cosmic doobie]

Originally posted by kazaalite911@27 October 2003 - 17:40


so point is...if you dont want stupid programs like gator to get on your pc, don't let anyone else use it, unless they too are knowledgable of it.

Block 'em!
In your firewall and hosts file.

[darkmind]

no one but me uses my computer
ive installed a face recognition software,
mounted a shotgun to the case,
welded a wire to the trigger and the other end to the cd tray,
if the computer doesnt recognize my face the cd tray closes and BLAM,
one less person in the world

hows that 4 keeping ppl off ur computer

[nanotek]

Originally posted by kazaalite911@27 October 2003 - 17:40
i hate it when my g/f uses my laptop. i have virus protection, pop-up blocker, ad-removal programs, but when she plays games on gamesville or even yahoo, somehow(i haven't checked thuroughly yet) gator gets on from a clock program or calendar program. wtf do i need that for??

so point is...if you dont want stupid programs like gator to get on your pc, don't let anyone else use it, unless they too are knowledgable of it.

hehe i got the same probs with my wife she doesnt have a clue about security and thinks im being paranoid all the time with all those progs i use ! until recently the worm went about and u heard of it everywhere including on the radio and then she began to relise i was right !

[UKMan]

Originally posted by nanotek+27 October 2003 - 20:16--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nanotek @ 27 October 2003 - 20:16)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-kazaalite911@27 October 2003 - 17:40
i hate it when my g/f uses my laptop. i have virus protection, pop-up blocker, ad-removal programs, but when she plays games on gamesville or even yahoo, somehow(i haven&#39;t checked thuroughly yet) gator gets on from a clock program or calendar program. wtf do i need that for??

so point is...if you dont want stupid programs like gator to get on your pc, don&#39;t let anyone else use it, unless they too are knowledgable of it.

hehe i got the same probs with my wife she doesnt have a clue about security and thinks im being paranoid all the time with all those progs i use &#33; until recently the worm went about and u heard of it everywhere including on the radio and then she began to relise i was right &#33; [/b][/quote]
Thank God i only have a cat

Peace
UKMan

[Wednesday]

Is it rude to ask Sharedholder for his input?

[Wednesday]

Thank you UKMan