I’ve noticed a lot of traffic coming to my site looking for information about Claria and spyware, and more importantly, and the intersection of the two. Claria is the company formerly known as Gator, notorious for their software that, once installed would track users on what websites they visited, and what they did on the web, and for selling users personal information, all without explicitly telling the user.
When the word got out that this was happening, and people reasonably got pissed off, Gator tried to sue the whistleblowers. When that backfired on them, the gave up and changed their name to Claria.
Well folks, Shakespeare said it best. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, except in this case, Claria’s not coming off smelling like roses. They’re doing some really shitty things with your private information, and if you’ve got Gator installed, they’ve got your information, and they’ve sold it to persons unknown.
And that’s why I say, do yourself a favor and download a spyware removal tool, like Ad-Aware, and, remember, Claria is Spyware.
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Hi
I use Ad-aware, and as good as it is, even the latest update didn't detect Claria (I discovered I had Claria by trying PestScan on the Pest Patrol website)
Posted by Nick | May 8, 2004 7:18 AM
Posted on May 8, 2004 07:18