Common name: Gator Technical name: Adware/Gator Threat level: Low Alias: GAIN, Claria, Type: Spyware Subtype: Adware Effects:
It downloads and displays advertisements. It connects to web pages that contain the phrase gator.com through the port 80. Affected platforms:
Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 First detected on: Sept. 11, 2003 Detection updated on: Nov. 2, 2007 Statistics Yes Proactive protection: Yes, using TruPrevent Technologies Brief De_script_ion
Gator is an adware type program, which offers the application at the only cost of viewing a series of advertisements.
Gator downloads and displays advertisements.
In addition, Gator connects to web pages that contain the phrase gator.com through the port 80. It does this in order to make it difficult to block this information delivery.
Some Gator versions replace the viewed advertising banners in the accessed web pages with others of its own.
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