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JeLlYfIsH
6th March 2002, 19:58
Hey guys, howcome when I try to run msconfig and turn off the gain.exe or whatever it is, it's not there. And frankly it has never came up on my system, other than the fact that the installer says that it is installing it, i never see anything else of it. No popups when i surf, nothing. I'm surely not complaining, but at the same time i am still kind of wondering how this is? Any thoughts?
andreazs
6th March 2002, 22:08
It is either gain_trickler_3102, or CMEsys. Both of these are the gator spyware.:stupid:
buba king
6th March 2002, 22:22
the best way is to scan the register for any spy ware related keys (with adaware) and null out the start values.. this will fool the divx codec to think the spy shit is installed but the spy ware programs will never start beacause the paths are not correct.... :)
SpEeDaMiGo
6th March 2002, 22:59
when using msconfig look out for "Trickler" (at least in win98se)
this way, it won't start at boot-up
evilhomer
7th March 2002, 02:28
I have divx pro now installed on 2 computers. One had trickler, the other doesn't and never did. I didn't delete or modify the files or registry in any way.
MaTTeR
7th March 2002, 02:48
Welcome to Doom9 JeLlYfIsH!

Have you restarted since installing Divx 5?
Lord Sandwich
7th March 2002, 03:17
In addition to turning it off in MSCONFIG, I deleted the Gain executable and everything works just fine.
ThePanda
7th March 2002, 05:22
i disabled gain and that cme stuff in msconfig, and divx didn't yell at me until the start of the second pass. i went to reenable it in msconfig, and cme was still there, but g...exe or whatever it is was gone. so I downloaded ZoneAlarm to block it. does that nulling the registry stuff work?
skyout
7th March 2002, 05:36
Gain is really Web3000. Follow the instructions for Removing Web3000 at the following site:

http://www.accs-net.com/smallfish/web3000.htm
JeLlYfIsH
7th March 2002, 16:09
Oh yeah i have restarted several times (windows xp has me restarting frequently), and i have looked in msconfig, but have seen not a trace of it in there.

@matter
Thanks, i just thought that i would broaden my horizons a little, i always come to doom9 for the news, so i thought i would check out the forums over here too.