ClickZ: Gator Attack? The Best Defense Is to Join the Anti-Microsoft Offense
Editorial asserting that Gator is a legal content filter that should be exploited as an advertising vehicle. Also asserts that Microsoft's browser monopoly is the true threat that …
CNN: What's fair in online love and ads?
Explains how Gator's software works, the controversy surrounding it, and how to remove it.
Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting
Research that uses reverse engineering techniques to learn more about how Gator targets sites. Includes a utility allowing users to determine this information for a given Web site.
Forbes.com: Gator's Legal Feud Means Big Publicity
Asserts that Gator's legal battle over its "guerilla warfare" marketing tactics is bringing it free publicity and advertising for its program.
Gator's EULA Gone Bad
By Ben Edelman. Analysis and criticism of Claria's end user license agreement (EULA).
Slashdot: A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads
Report on Gator's pop-up downloads, followed by reader discussion of this and other tactics used by Gator.
ThiefWare.com: Gator Data Sheet
Discusses Gator auto-install attempts via ActiveX or other techniques when a web site is visited.
USA Today: Spyware watches where you surf
Discusses "freeloading programs" that install spyware components on a user's computer. Gator is among the programs examined.
ZDNet News: Gator sued over pop-up ads
Report on lawsuit filed by publishers seeking injunction and damages for Gator's unauthorized advertising on their site's.
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