OT: Any way to forget Gator?

[BBegemott]

Thanks all for your responces.

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

[Arkcon]

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 ]

[Perrin]

If you must use Internet Explorer here is something that you can do to limit the amount of spy ware you get from pages:

Go to Tools: internet options. Select the privacy tab. Click the advanced button. Click the override automatic cookie handling. And select prompt for first and third party cookies.



When you visit a page you will get a notification about every cookie that tries to access you machine. You can block, accept, black all, or accept all. It may seem a little annoying at first but as you start blocking all the number of cookie notices that you will receive will drop dramatically. More importantly by blocking them you will prevent spyware from gaining access to your PC. After I started doing this when I would scan my system with Ad-aware I only find 1 or two compared to the 20 I used to find.

[Roanon]

Originally posted by Perrin:
If you must use Internet Explorer here is something that you can do to limit the amount of spy ware you get from pages

Limit, but not stop. There really is no reason to use IE instead of any other non-spyware supporting browser. IE actively supports this behaviour, and with a lot of effort you can stop some of its abuse. Every other browser just is not programmed to support spying. It is not a glitch, bug or something that a new patch for IE will fix. It is done on purpose, and if you use IE you accept and submit to this policy.

[Parasite]

I use a application called "Cookie Wall". It allows you to sort created cookies into Groups to keep and Groups to kill. Find it Here . I use it in combo with SpyBot, and have not had many problems. Of course my web ranging is limited and I try to keep away from sites that might have these sorts of cookies.

SpyBot cleans them, and C-Wall keeps them out.

[Fyron]

Disabling Active-X scripts from being able to run solves a lot of problems...

[DeadZone]

Make sure you have ad-watch running if you can afford it

And if not, Im sure there are plenty of free alternatives about

Also, if a pop-up asking you to install something appears ALWAYS PRESS NO/CANEL

Thats the only way Ive ever know Gator to get installed

Also, use emule if you must use P2P, its spy/ad ware free

Goto www.download.com and look around for things that will help with security

As for a firewall, havent used one for a long time, I find them too much hassle and no firewall is as good as people make out as they just provide a challenge to hackers, and hackers will accept all challenges

Every since I stopped using firewalls I havent been hacked once and my net speed as been noticablly faster and more stable

But thats just me