  CarterStClai X-Out The W
join:2002-04-17 Sugar Land, TX edit: October 1st, @04:56PM
| Yay! See subject...
BTW, the original article claims they changed the name to "JellyCloud" (not Jellyfish). | |
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 |   RadioDoc Sortofadog Premium,ExMod 2000-03 join:2000-05-11 Chicago, IL | Re: Yay! Mmmmmm. Gator. Tastes like chicken. -- Toolmaster of La Grange. | |
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join:2004-10-26 North Andover, MA | Re: Yay! God I hated that company. Can't count how many times I had to clean it off of various relatives computers as it hijacked web browsers. | |
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  punker deleted by moderator Premium join:2004-06-21 Palmdale, CA clubs: | 5 new ones will replace it 5 new ones will replace it | |
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 |   MysticGogeta The Robot Devil Premium join:2005-03-14 League City, TX clubs: | Re: 5 new ones will replace it Agreed company dies, but the developers scatter to other company's. -- Team Discovery-Join the fight | |
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join:2005-02-11 Davie, FL
| Re: 5 new ones will replace it said by MysticGogeta :Agreed company dies, but the developers scatter to other company's. Developers code what they're told to code, whether the company does good or evil. | |
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 |   NetAdmin
join:2008-05-22
| said by punker :5 new and MUCH worse ones will already replace it Fixed it for you... 
Anyone remember when Gator first came out? 1999. Damn.
said by »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claria_Corporation :Originally released in 1999, Gator was most frequently installed together with programs being offered free of charge, such as Go!Zilla, or Kazaa.[citation needed] The development of these programs is partially funded by revenue from advertising displayed by Gator.[citation needed] As of mid-2003 Gator was installed on an estimated 35 million PCs.[2] It has been installed through misleading or surreptitious means in the past, usually without disclosing that it will be monitoring web browsing habits and displaying ads based on profiling of the user.[citation needed] -- --- Drilling for more oil is akin to giving a methhead the keys to the meth lab. | |
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join:2002-03-04 Plainfield, IN | Re: 5 new ones will replace it I really thought Go!Zilla was the poop when I first found it. It was poop, alright. | |
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 |   Mactron el Camino Real Premium join:2001-12-16 CM94sv | Kinda like Wack a Mole. These low life just keep popping up.  | |
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  Dogfather Altitude is your friend Premium join:2007-12-26 Laguna Hills, CA | Kudos to PCPitStop And others who openly assailed these a-holes. | |
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  cyboid Got Boost ? Premium join:2002-04-08 Medford, OR | Goodbye
and good riddance...may all your freinds and competitors follow you down the rat-hole. -- ~Live on the edge or you're using too much space~ -Cyboid- | |
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 |   cabana now in strawberry Assistant join:2000-07-07 New York, NY
Host: AT&T Southeast 56k lookout! (broa..
| Re: Goodbye Love to have been at that table when they were rebranding... "I know I know... let's call it... JellyCloud" !!!
I mean really JellyCloud?... they should have gone out of business just for the name  | |
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 |   MagMan Life is simpler when you tell the truth. Premium join:2003-10-01 Westlake, OH | Good riddance to bad rubbish. | |
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  RickNY Premium join:2000-11-02 New York
·Optimum Online
| I'd trade.. I'd trade Gator today for some of the nasty crap that has come along since then.. At least Gator was relatively easy to remove.. The stuff that has come out since then (i.e. XP Antivirus 2008, Spyware Sheriff, all variants of Virtumondo) has in some cases been nightmares to get rid of. | |
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 |   cork1958 Cork
join:2000-02-26 Fruitport, MI
·Charter Pipeline
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| Re: I'd trade.. said by RickNY :I'd trade Gator today for some of the nasty crap that has come along since then.. At least Gator was relatively easy to remove.. The stuff that has come out since then (i.e. XP Antivirus 2008, Spyware Sheriff, all variants of Virtumondo) has in some cases been nightmares to get rid of. I know Spybot really considers those ones you mention as baddies, but, unbelievably, I still have yet to find a computer that has those ones on it.
But, yeah, good riddance to this particular niusance!! -- The Firefox alternative. »www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ | |
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join:2006-11-21 Saint Louis, MO edit: October 1st, @05:24PM
| I miss.. my Banzai Buddy We had such great times together while he destroyed my pc! Rest in peace with the Gator! | |
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 |  dentman42
join:2001-10-02 Columbus, OH
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: I miss.. said by ender7074 :my Banzai Buddy  We had such great times together while he destroyed my pc! Rest in peace with the Gator! He'll be back... WhenUwant | |
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 |  TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03 Wyckoff, NJ
| said by ender7074 :my Banzai Buddy  We had such great times together while he destroyed my pc! Rest in peace with the Gator! I got a good laugh out of this one . speaking of annoyances, I remember way back around 1995 when I kept on getting a spam newsletter that constantly bombarded my email account, and back in the days of dial up, it was a biatch to download over and over again.... Wish I could remember what that annoyance was.. | |
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  Rob In Deo speramus Premium join:2001-08-25 Kendall, FL | Claria.. Claria ... seriously.. doesn't that sound like a name of an STD? | |
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 |  Killa200
join:2005-12-02 Spring City, TN | Re: Claria.. yes, hence why it fits for them,  | |
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join:2001-02-14 Brooklyn, NY | Re: Claria.. Yep, nomen est omen. 
Another PoS parasite bites the dust, good - now only if rest of the scumbags would die, starting with fake RIAA/MPAA-mob "media" companies... | |
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 |   Transmaster Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY | Purple Monkey I have a vague memory something that had a purple monkey that infested your desktop. What ever happened to that turd? -- Remember you can not spell Democrat without the word Rat. | |
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| Re: Purple Monkey said by Transmaster :I have a vague memory something that had a purple monkey that infested your desktop. What ever happened to that turd? »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzi_Buddy | |
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join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY | Re: Purple Monkey Bonzi Buddy Oh how could I forget this piece of Internet excrement. Then there is the CueCat I wonder how much money Radio Shack lost on that little thing. -- Remember you can not spell Democrat without the word Rat. | |
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  JokerCPoC
join:2005-11-21 Yermo, CA | One down and who knows One down and who knows how many others are out there. | |
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join:2006-09-04 Pflugerville, TX | No use for it I never saw the use for Gator/GoZilla....Made sure none of that junk was on my PC. | |
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  NebuAd
@ntl.com | NebuAd is directly conected to the key Gator people your all forgetting that NebuAd is directly connected to the key Gator and Claria Corporation executive people, why is that?
NebuAd Ex-employees create an ISP-installed advertising appliance. | |
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join:2001-11-15 Boyds, MD | Gotta get Gator Great, now who's going to remember all of my passwords for me?
Bye Gator... So long 8hr spyware removal sessions | |
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 |   dvd536 as Mr. Pink as they come Premium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ
| Re: Gotta get Gator said by CycloneGT :Bye Gator... So long 8hr spyware removal sessions Virtumondo still keeps the dollars flowing my way. -- When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more new yonooz tonigh molinigh - Ken Lee | |
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  Corehhi
join:2002-01-28 Bluffton, SC | Ding dong the witch is dead Most annoying "software maker" of all time I think. | |
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  DOStradamus MVM join:2003-11-04 Santa Rosa, CA | Paging Buffy!! Anyone for a little "Preventative Maintenance"?? I say we bury Gator with a wooden stake "pre-installed" and configured, so he never rises again!
-NK | |
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 |   armyrebel4 Dream Chaser Premium join:2002-01-08 Crest Hill, IL | Re: here's what I remember. Nicely said. | |
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  afdfdsfd
@comcast.net | Their website is still up and running. Their website is still up and running. | |
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  MotherNature Chile peppers are my heroin Premium join:2002-08-23 Fontana, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
| Who hit Nelly in the belly with a load of jelly? JellyCloud... very apropos considering what jelly is a euphemism for and how Gator fucked with daily life on the internet for so many years.
Good riddance, slimeballs. Sue this..... -- You're a bum, you're a punk, you're an old slut on junk.... Póg mo thóin. | |
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 Ammler Premium join:2005-04-19 Pittsburgh, PA
| Claria who? You mean they were still around??? 
I remember when Gator first hit the PC scene. Some of the younger people in the office actually installed it on their work PC's, acting like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. 
I knew it couldn't be a good thing, so I researched exactly what this company did. I then knew I wanted no part of it.
My wife's cousin installed the "Banzai Buddy" on her PC and thought it was hilarious. Once again, I had suspicions, and when I found out, not for me! | |
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join:2005-04-07 West Lafayette, IN
| What i'd like to know Where do these jerks pushing malware find such damn good hosting?
If I download media from Microsoft, Apple, Google etc., I am LUCKY if I can get 130KB a sec.
But this morning I started was creating virtual machines to infect, and those damn malware sites were able to saturate a 20megabit pipe with their downloads. | |
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 ophelus
join:2004-01-11 Denver, CO
| why is a subject needed? Didn't the company make a product.. that helped you remember your credit card/billing info and other stuff you copy and pasted.. at the time I didn't understand the attraction..
As today (as in then) I keep all that stuff in a file.. and copy and paste it myself.. the only thing this application did was store your data and save you from opening said file, highlighting and clicking copy... | |
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