October 3, 2003, 05:52
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When will this end? 
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"BANANA POWAAAAH!!! (exclamation Zopperoni style)" - Mercator, in the OT 'What fruit are you?' thread
Join the Civ2 Democratic Game! We have a banana option in every poll just for you to vote for!
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October 3, 2003, 08:30
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Got one - or rather I didn't as my work computer has ActiveX disabled. This was about 2 1/2 hours ago.
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October 3, 2003, 10:05
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Originally posted by Wittlich
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that z1.adserver is the advertiser responsible for gator terrorizing Apolyton of late.
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Hey, maybe z1.adserver can be a question on the next Member quiz.
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October 3, 2003, 13:35
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We haven't had the answers to the last one yet! 
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October 3, 2003, 14:44
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Got one... just happened...
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I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...
As always, will play after work. I wonder if I'll ever be able to turn that the other way...
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October 3, 2003, 14:45
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It came with this ad, properties window opened as well, if that helps at all.
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I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...
As always, will play after work. I wonder if I'll ever be able to turn that the other way...
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October 4, 2003, 06:45
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your windows style is... err, nice 
do you have a tendeny to watch your neighbour's children play?
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October 4, 2003, 11:54
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Well, I've changed my style to the ultralight...and I just got bitten by Gator again. Of course, it took 2 days for it to happen. But it did happen. So changing your style is not a cure for stopping Gator from latching on to you...
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"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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October 4, 2003, 14:11
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Witt: I think he means the colour scheme you have chosen for your windows.
I'll say what he was too polite to say: It looks........scary 
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Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark
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October 4, 2003, 14:37
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exactly
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October 4, 2003, 21:12
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Deity
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Oops, sorry, I guess you both misunderstood my last post. I agree that FlameFlash's color sceme is, well, scary to say the least. Oh, and I'm not FlameFlash. I am Wittlich. I guess one can get easily confused between the names... 
My post was in relation to Gator itself. I read earlier on this thread that if you have the ultra light special style, you will not get bitten by Gator. Well, I changed my style to the ultra light setting (though I did not like the style), I was still nabbed by Gator. So your choice of styles while surfing Apolyton has no effect on if and when Gator tries to nab you (if you're using IE). Of course, after my latest Gator incident, I have gone back to my original style (plain ol' Default Special).
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"One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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October 5, 2003, 03:25
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Originally posted by Oerdin
If you download gator then simply uninstall it through the find/remove programs then use system restore to restore your system files to when you shut down yesterday. It worked for me.
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some of us still use win98 
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October 5, 2003, 03:26
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Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Got a pop-up blocker and am prompting for cookies.
Had to do it because this stuff has gotten to the point of obnoxious. How many times do I really need to see that same Britaney Speers pop-up?
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I can't get enough Britney. I need her, I love her
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October 5, 2003, 07:20
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Deity
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Originally posted by Dissident
some of us still use win98
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Why would you do that?
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October 5, 2003, 09:01
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Emperor
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I was using Win98 until only last month, when I finally upgraded to XP.
It's a money issue... upgrading to XP is insanely expensive if you don't have a pirated copy around.
With that out of the way, back on subject...
I've gotten 2 more Gator ads in the past 3 days. That's actually down in frequency from what it was before, but it's still there.
I haven't seen anything that spectatcularly stands out in my history file, though.
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October 5, 2003, 09:51
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King
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Hmm. I just caught gator. I got the source of the page that causes gator to pop-up, but all it says on this page is 'please wait'. The code causes it to pop-up under the bottom of your screen, and I think it has an auto timer to shut itself after.
About two seconds before gator pop-ed up I got this ad, but I closed it straight away, so I dont know what it was advertising. When I try to open it now, it just auto shuts my browser. My history has this ad as happening the same minute the gator poped up. Also the number of visits to this site co-incide with the number of visits to the webpdp.gator site.
http://z1.adserver.com/w/cp.x;rid=25;tid=2;ev=1;dt=3;ac=7;c=817;
Interestingly enough, the images.adflow site that gator opens after you close it is giving 404 errors. Are these the ads you have stopped for the time being?
This is the source code that causes gator to pop up. You need to rename it to a .html ending to have the full gator experience.
Last edited by Snotty; October 5, 2003 at 09:57.
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October 5, 2003, 12:02
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I just got gatored again. Same procedure as every time. I wish we could tie z1.adserver to something
Snotty: From which URL did you get that sourcecode??
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October 5, 2003, 12:05
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Deity
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Originally posted by Snotty
This is the source code that causes gator to pop up. You need to rename it to a .html ending to have the full gator experience.
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 My God! Someone actually downloaded Snotty's link inorder to experience Gator?!? So, who was sadistic enough (or should I say bold enough) to try it? Did you rename the file to a .html ending?
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"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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October 5, 2003, 12:07
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Deity
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Originally posted by Asmodean
I just got gatored again. Same procedure as every time. I wish we could tie z1.adserver to something
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Well, my last attachment directly ties z1.adserver to Gator...but Dan has been silent concerning the "smoking gun."
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"One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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October 5, 2003, 14:04
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King
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I didnt think to get the url at the time, and none of the links in my history will take me to it. I will make sure to get it next time I see it.
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October 5, 2003, 16:03
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http://webpdp.gator.com/v3/webpdp_v3...=HIC_RydiumINT
that was the url of the source page. I used ad-aware about 1 hour before and all I had been doing was browsing poly.
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October 5, 2003, 17:28
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Originally posted by DrSpike
Why would you do that?
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for some reason I cannot fathom paying over $100 for an operating system.
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October 5, 2003, 17:56
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Originally posted by Dissident
for some reason I cannot fathom paying over $100 for an operating system.
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Neither can I.
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October 5, 2003, 18:02
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Neither can I.
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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
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October 5, 2003, 20:45
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Originally posted by Ecthelion
your windows style is... err, nice
do you have a tendeny to watch your neighbour's children play?
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eh? 
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I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...
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October 5, 2003, 20:49
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some of us still use win98
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It works fine, I don't see a need to upgrade.
Before I got my new computer I used Win 95. 
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October 6, 2003, 02:25
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Originally posted by geeslaka
Neither can I.
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You couldn't fathom paying a cent for your OSes.
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October 6, 2003, 03:19
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Extracted this URL from Snotty's script:
So is ad-flow the culprit?
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October 6, 2003, 03:50
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I think thats the address of the ad that pops up after you close gator. It would make sense that they pop up an ad from their company.
Is there a possibility they put another companys ad in as a red herring? It seems pretty crazy to me to be advertising for someone else..
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October 6, 2003, 04:25
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Just to confirm - Gator is still with us - from a blank window with rydium.tmpl as the only readable bit ...
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