Neowin News Feed for: Gator

Gator adware tops 2006 spyware chart

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:18:49 +0000

Gator, a type of adware that offers free use of an application if users agree to view a series of pop-up messages tops the list of spyware most frequently detected by PandaLabs in 2006. Some... Read more...

Smiling Gator closes shop, Twilight War canned

Todd Tanner — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:47:58 +0000

Smiling Gator Productions announced Tuesday that the Source engine based MMO Twilight War that they had been creating for the past 17 months was now cancelled, and the studio itself was shutting down. Apparently even... Read more...

Gator Adware Removal Tool 1.0

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:08:01 +0000

Gator Adware Removal Tool enables network administrators to remove Gator from any machine on the network. Just type in the host name of the machine to scan. Requires... Read more...

Gator, er, Claria Files for IPO

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:21:25 +0000

Thanks HellBender for this. Claria, the controversial adware company formerly known as Gator, on Thursday filed for an initial public offering to raise $150 million to continue developing its "behavioral marketing platform." Claria... Read more...

Gator bites back, sues suer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:00:11 +0000

On-line ad company Gator has bitten back against recent lawsuits by launching its own case against a business that has complained about its pop-up ads. US-based Gator Corp provides free software to... Read more...

Judge clamps down on Gator

Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:37:46 +0000

A federal judge on Friday ordered software company Gator to temporarily stop displaying pop-up advertising over Web publishers' pages without their permission. The order was issued in a lawsuit filed against Gator... Read more...

Gator sued over pop-up ads

Steven Parker — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:18:10 +0000

Thanks exit exit for this.. A group of publishers this week sued the Gator online advertising network in a bid to bar the company from serving pop-up ads on their Web sites without their permission.... Read more...

Gator branded a trojan horse despite security fix

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 03:22:40 +0000

Gator has corrected a security flaw in the Web-based installer program for its popular digital wallet software, but some anti-virus utilities still brand the program a Trojan horse. Responding to a report... Read more...

Gator Wants to Spearhead Standards

Darren Bolton — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:43:42 +0000

Former Internet advertising bad boy Gator says it's interested in leading the charge for standards governing ad-supported software and pop-ups. Redwood City, Calif.-based Gator's proposed guidelines essentially extend common, self-regulatory online advertising... Read more...