OT: Any way to forget Gator?

Baron Munchausen · #1 April 10th, 2004, 10:00 PM

It comes with a pretty good set of default filters, and you can get 'customized' sets of filters on the Yahoo group dedicated to Proxomitron. (That's "prox-list" @ Groups.yahoo.com) They have a special set just for Yahoo Groups, for example, that wipes out the advertising and re-arranges the page.

The people on this list are on top of the trends in 'counter measures' and will quickly post new filters if new types of ads show up that get around the normal filters.

[ April 10, 2004, 21:09: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Fyron · #2 April 10th, 2004, 10:03 PM

Proxomitron comes with scripts that kill 99.9% of ads and other nasty web stuff.

For some reason, Proxomitron randomly stopped working on my PC one day... and I thought it was a dead project. Hopefully it will start working again for me with the new Version. Then I won't have to see the ad banners on Shrapnel any more.

[ April 10, 2004, 21:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

bearclaw · #3 April 10th, 2004, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Slynky:
I use SpyBot-S&D Here, I think.

yeah, spybot is what I've used most effectively. Gives you an option to immunize your PC. Love that program.

Baron Munchausen · #4 April 11th, 2004, 01:29 AM

New Version? The Last Proxomitron was released in June of 2003. There won't be any more. You can read the story of why that is on the same Yahoo group where you go for help. They have a record of the Messages where the author finally loses patience with some of the whiners and throws in the towel. As good as Proxomitron currently is, though, it will still be useful for years. Before things change too much (new releases of Windows) maybe someone can get the source code from him if he won't resume work on it himself and make an 'open source' project out of it.

[ April 11, 2004, 00:30: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Electrum · #5 April 11th, 2004, 04:10 AM

The first thing is figure out what site your visiting that keeps loading gator on your system, then stay away.
I use both ad-aware & Spybot & have them set up as scheduled tasks
Asuming default locations,For Ad-aware use this syntax:
C:\PROGRA~1\Lavasoft\AD-AWA~1\Ad-aware.exe "c:" +A +S +1
For Spybot:
C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1.1\SpybotSD.exe /autocheck /autofix /autoclose

This will auto clean your system. I set them to run once a day at staggered times, what one misses, the other gets.

BBegemott · #6 April 11th, 2004, 08:08 PM

Thanks all for your responces.

I guess I'll try changing my browser to Opera firstly. And see if that helps or not.

Arkcon · #7 April 12th, 2004, 02:47 PM

OK, I'm going to add one thing. On the website Fark.com, there is a recent discussion on a news story about avoiding spyware.

I've found Fark discussions on computer topics are suprisingly good. Most /. discussions rapidly turn to "use Linix, no problems", which doesn't really help me.

So here's the link, but ... be careful about going here. Usually Fark satirizes news storys and such, but links that say NSFW mean "not safe for work", and that means nudity. Even the ads on the borders are well populated with very healthy women who seem to have problems finding t-shirts that fit well.

With that caveat, {clicky}

[ April 12, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: Arkcon ]