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Gator bites back in ad battle
News Gator, based in Redwood City, California, filed a lawsuit late on Monday in California federal court against the IAB to "protect the right to utilise Gator's newest advertising vehicle, the Companion Pop-up Banner.
[August 29, 2001, 9:50]
Gator exec speaks out on ads
News As "Chief ExecuGator" of controversial software company Gator, Jeff McFadden is biting back at critics of his baby. The three-year-old company filed a lawsuit last week against the Interactive Advertising Bureau, contending that the chief trade...
[September 5, 2001, 10:21]
Gator looks for new image with name change
News Gator, the controversial advertising software and e-wallet company, has changed its name to better reflect its business in behavioural marketing. The name change to Claria, however, is already reflected on Gator’s Web site.
[October 30, 2003, 8:25]
Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard
News A Harvard University researcher has completed an investigation of the Gator advertising utility, offering a glimpse into the workings of one of the Web's most controversial pop-up networks. Gator is a utility, sometimes derided as "spyware", that...
[May 22, 2003, 11:34]
Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard
Talkback Going after gator is fine, but there are litterally THOUSANDS of other smaller companies doing this, on a much more destructive scale, Gator should be dealth with, but these other companies need to be shutdown!
[April 20, 2004, 0:54]
Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard
Talkback I was very impressed with your article on "gator" Spyware, I just spent the day removing it from my system. I decided to look online to see what "Gator" was when I came across your article. I personaly feel that "Gator is an invasion of my privacy!
[June 15, 2004, 4:39]
Critics snapping at Gator's heels
News An influential advertising trade group is publicly criticising software company Gator for tampering with the already troubled online ad market. Robin Webster, chief executive of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), said the group's board of...
[August 28, 2001, 14:15]
Beware of Gator bug
News Gator, a popular application that fills in Web site passwords and forms, contains a security flaw that puts users' computer files at risk, security experts said. According to a security warning issued this week from Eyeonsecurity.com, the ActiveX...
[February 25, 2002, 10:38]
Publishers sue Gator over pop-ups
News 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. Indeed, on information and belief, Gator tells prospective advertisers that...
[June 28, 2002, 9:53]
Web publishers settle with Gator
News A group of top newspaper publishers has reached a legal settlement with Gator over the uninvited display of its Web advertisements atop their site pages. Mid-last year, a US federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Gator to temporarily stop...
[February 10, 2003, 10:05]
Anti-spyware software targets Gator
News The 4-year-old company said the technology is specially constructed to fight software from Gator -- a widely deployed plug-in used to target ads -- by deleting the plug-in automatically anytime it's detected.
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
The great banner ad cover-up
News Already contending with a weak advertising market, Web publishers have another concern: Gator. Because Gator can monitor a person's surfing habits across the Web, the technology can learn a person's tastes and deliver related advertising on any...
[August 17, 2001, 12:43]
Search engines get 'Gatored'
News The Gator online advertising network is testing a new paid search product that lets rivals poach on each other's territory in one of the Net's hottest new marketing venues. Search Scout, launched in December, triggers a pop-under window when Gator...
[January 15, 2003, 7:42]
Who’s watching the watchers?
News They thought what Gator was doing was absolutely destructive to the availability of free content on the Web. A: I took a call from the plaintiffs in the Washington Post case against Gator. That often results in red faces and, occasionally, lawsuit...
[May 6, 2005, 13:10]
You know when you've been Gatored
News In Gator's case, the company has seen the number of downloads reach into the millions, in part due to partnerships with file-sharing software and other popular downloads that allow companies to piggyback software.
[August 7, 2001, 14:47]
Web surfers brace for pop-up downloads
News One well-known practitioner is Gator, a company that makes a helper application that manages passwords and user IDs. While many people find the software to be useful, Gator also has built in some more questionable features.
[April 8, 2002, 12:28]
Adware under the microscope
News In exchange for eWallet, Gator solicits voluntary demographic information and funnels people into thousands of consumer categories, such as affluent travelers or new mothers. For instance, a recent Gator campaign for an international, high-end...
[June 28, 2002, 16:08]
Napster clones spy on P2P users
News Created by a company called Gator, the "Offer Companion" is slowly downloaded to a person's computer after Audio Galaxy is installed and eventually starts sending information such as e-mail addresses and Web surfing habits back to Gator.com.
[May 15, 2001, 7:45]
Great -- and it's free
Member Review downloaded and it soon sorted GATOR for me, could not believe what else it picked up. I am running a firewall and anti-virus software, my PC runs faster, and if you take time to read the help manual, which is excellent, you should have no problems.
[February 18, 2004, 8:58]
US leads the dirty dozen spammers
Talkback Why is it that Gator seems to find itself within our systems which comes in unauthorized. Yet no where is there any effort made to devert them from contiuning their dirty ways of infiltrating our systems.
[December 24, 2004, 16:49]
