Roger Wilco. What a piece of art. Every multiplayer game uses it. We love it and it helps bring teamplay to another level, much like in a real sport (well, quake3 :) or, as with sims, real mission.
So, why is it the topic of my column update then? Nothing new about this, it has been around for ages...
Wrong. There was a new version I installed a few days back. Having done this only a few minutes before my league game and no time for testing, I joined the server and procceeded as usual, chatting and fragging away. Until--and this is unusual for my cable modem--i got some weird lag. Normally, I attribute this to my nasty flatmates downloading porn or abusing my network in some other imaginative way (like downloading the latest Linux ISO for the 10th time). But, as I was ready to unplug the network cable and have my piece, I spotted a little add in the fucking corner of my quake, saying 'click here to go to gator.com'. With a banner, a flower and everything! Inside my game, no less!
Needless to say, after the game, I dropped out and some program called FSG.EXE was running and smiling at me from the taskbar icons. I killed it then deleted the direcotry and all files that it had and it has not bothered me since.
Very interesting read, i assure you. Here we go, some snippets: 'fsg.exe' is installed to the ststem directory. This file executes when RW is run for the first time and, WITHOUT ASKING YOU downloads the full GATOR program. To my understanding, Gator is software that offers some kind of disscounts or something, on products found on web pages. Gator is also identified as SPYWARE, meaning that it transmits data from your machine to other machines on the Internet, again, without asking you.
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Since their budget was still not looking good, they decided to make RW into a spyware product. This has caused much concern with the original Resounding team, but we have no choice but to do what they tell us, since they owned the rights to RW. We had no input on the decision, and we couldn't do anything about it.
Isn't it lucky my team just got us a GameVoice server with x2 channels of 6 users? Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame...
Chunx [unregristered]
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Posted: 14/2 at 20:19
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Makes me gllad I have a copy of RW1c on a Zip Disk..... :(
There are two Gator products that are installed during the RW install. They must be uninstalled individually, be sure you get them both. Both show up on your system tray so you will know.
A week or so ago I encountered Gator. Since then I have reinstalled Windows and downloaded RW. The lestest RW version, Mark 1c Mod1. Downloaded from the RW site, and 364.229 large does NOT contain any Gator.
The RW with Gator is over 400k
BTW, this RW version doesn't require any registration either.
This file is also installed with a program called "Cheetachat". It's a bloody liberty!
To uninstall it, go to the Start Menu and choose Find Files, fsg.exe and delete that file, then (on win98) run msconfig.exe and delete the reference to Trickler/FSG in the startup column (Win95 might involve finding the correct key in the registry)
Webshots came with the option of loading gator and like a fool I did now Im out getting 411 on it so I can safely delete it without crashing my pc since it's custom made
those dirty rats. any 411 u have would be apriciated
Track [unregristered]
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Posted: 9/11 at 11:55
IP: 63.38.200.181
I download a lot of free software. When I downloaded what I thought was Microsoft GIF Animator, I was really downloading something else. I went to install this "Microsoft GIF Animator" and to my surprise it was really another program that installed a program which help with downloads, can't remember the name though -- I don't think that it was Gator. What I do remember was that it was supposed to help with downloads.
Well I went and uninstalled the program I thought no more about it. Later however, Zonelabs flagged on a program called "FSG.EXE" trying to access the Internet. I didn't know what this was and stopped it from doing so. After this I went through the Add/Remove function to see if any program was loaded that I hadn't installed. I came across a program called "GetRight."
As I tried to uninstall GetRight I was prevented in doing so because it said that a log file couldn't be found. That ticked me off and I did a search for GetRight on my hard drive and in the registry. Once I removed this from both I logged onto the Net and lo and behold ZoneLabs did not give me any warnings about FSG.EXE. Imagine that.
Well, it's been quite a while since I found gator in my pc but this should help you guys out on removing any spyware http:www.lavasoft.com Download the free version of Ad-aware and it will dafely remove any and all spuyware but don't remove Alexis because your pc needs that reg entry
see ya around,
Sonicia
Well, it's been quite a while since I found gator in my pc but this should help you guys out on removing any spyware http://www.lavasoft.com Download the free version of Ad-aware and it will dafely remove any and all spuyware but don't remove Alexis because your pc needs that reg entry
see ya around,
Sonicia
