[thelist] death by banner- the next generation

[John Best]

This stuff all comes under the "spyware" heading.

Get something like www.grc.com 's "optOut" program(something like..not
neccesarily that one.) and move the poo of your drive.

Have a look on the internet about your specific program
(I suggest google "spyware " + name of program...)

doing the above for gator turned up this nice little site (i visited before)
http://www.cexx.org/gator.htm


John Best

ps.. It probably is worth being proactive in getting rid of this crap thats
clogging your system..particularly if you play games


>
> i have something like that one my comp.. it was installed with a
> program (i
> don't know which!), and it pops up banner ads at a random interval. after
> playing unreal tounrnament for a few hours, there are about 10 of
> them on my
> screen! i hate that crap..
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