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Interesting post Dominique!
I use a program called “Spybot Search & Destroy” on my computer to hunt for spyware and scumware and delete it.
This is a free program that you can download here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/
Like Norton Anti-Virus, they are constantly updating their detectioin rules to find new scumware on your computer.
It’s a great program and I use it on all my computers.
If you like it, you should make a donation to the guy who keeps it going. But it is 100% free to download and use.
I used to use a program called “AdAware” but they have not been very good about updating their detection rules and I have “SpyBot Search and Destroy” to be much better.
Yes, that is a good program.
I found that most of them get most of the bugs but all of them get something the other guy doesn’t.
When I had a trojan nothing would catch I bought the “Aluria” program.
It’s inexpensive, constantly updated, and works on everything so far, with the exception of the “seven search” search bug.
I finally found the program that was hiding it – called browser accelerator. After deleting that program (all browsers closed) I was able to delete the seven search through Aluria.
I always urge my visitors and readers to get spyware removers.
Regarding that Gator test site, you did not give the complete URL.
It should look like this:
http://asp-cyber.law.harvard.edu/gator-sites/test.asp?host=microsoft.com
If you click on that link you will see all the Gator advertisers who are targeting Microsoft.com and what keywords they are using.
If you want to know if any Gator advertisers are targeting YOU,
replace “microsoft.com” in the URL above with your website domain.For example, I changed to code to check “winwardcasino.com” :
http://asp-cyber.law.harvard.edu/gator-sites/test.asp?host=winwardcasino.com
If you click on that link you can see all the bastards that are targeting OUR gambling traffic! :madat:
Have fun.
That is the way it works. It has, however, been serving only cached results for months, and it is quite outdated.
I have not watched gator in a couple of months, but last time I looked it was a whole lot worse than this tool shows.
You are right .. I just noticed that the data date is from June 2003.
So that is the advertisers who “were” targeting us.
But I bet most of them (or maybe more) still are!
:shooter:
It was a whole lot more a couple of months ago, but I hear that the ROI for gator users is going down.
So perhaps the user number will go down too.
