Difficult to remove?! That is the understatement of the year. Simply put, getting GATOR (or GAIN) uninstalled can be a b*tch. I used Ad-Aware to uninstall, but that wasn't easy either.
Speaking of SPAM, has anyone noticed how many popups Drudge has now. He used to have 1 when you came to the page for the first time that day. Now, you everytime I go to Drudge I get at least 2 pop ups. Also, at one point, I thought FR was doing pop ups (something that would have been VERY displeasing), but then realized it must have been an Ad serv on moving away from Drudge.
Yep, that happened to me, too. :-(
Watch out for a new one called ClearSearch. I spent all day Saturday taking that SOB off my harddrive. Not sure how I got it either . . . Except perhaps it was one of their tricky pop-ups that fooled me into answering incorrectly. It said something like, "Do you want to continue being in the dark about all our great internet bargains?" Answering 'no' downloads and intalls ClearSearch.