allthatglitters,
I was working on a customer's computer today who had Gator. All the registry keys and folders were listed as Claria. That program, and a few other malware programs, had ground this poor computer to a crawl while online. (Well it did not help that they were using AOL 6.0 with a static filled phone line either.) The Ad-Aware Download was using Bytes to list the download speed from an FTP that was less than 30 miles away.
It was so bad, I went off and had lunch, since I could not see sitting there for an hour with the meter running, baby sitting a download. After getting Ad-Aware installed and running, it made a world of difference on that computer. When I left he was getting around 5k/sec download.
I am starting to think I am making more money off of Gator than the people that made the program. I cannot believe how many computers I find with that malware on it.
Take Care,
Richard