Gator – the facts

Unless you’ve been using the ‘Interweb’ for less than a day, you will have come across ‘Gator’ in an advert, pop-up, pop-under, redirect or other irritating means of getting your attention. You may even have been forced to install it whilst trying to install some other piece of software that you actually want. It’s a truly nasty piece of software that can be described as ‘bloatware’, ‘adware’, ‘malware’ or any number of other bad names. The Cyber law dept of Harvard University has done a study into Gator which makes for very interesting reading. It’s not all gloomy though, have a look in the lawsuits section to see how badly they’re doing in the courts at the moment.