Author Topic: FSG running in background..what is it? (Read 481 times)

Ping · « **on:** January 19, 2001, 05:06:00 PM »

Title says it all. It wants to connect to internet and if I shut it down, or disallow access thru Zonealarm..AH locks up.

Any Ideas?

SKurj · « **Reply #1 on:** January 19, 2001, 06:19:00 PM »

Wish I knew... i noticed FSG.exe myself, checked properties.. its a Trickler whatever that is..

AKskurj

Eagler · « **Reply #2 on:** January 19, 2001, 06:22:00 PM »

I deleted mine. I think I picked it up when I was downloading some screensavers. I did a search for it in explorer and deleted it as it wasn't in my startup folder.

Eagler

Ping · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2001, 06:22:00 AM »

Thanx for the replies guys..deleting it as we speak

Lephturn · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2001, 07:25:00 AM »

If you are running Windows 98, from the Start menu choose Run and in the box type "msconfig" and hit OK. The "startup" tab under msconfig will show you everything that is started automatically when you boot your computer. You can stop things from running simply by un-checking the box in the startup tab.

There are quite a few things out there that put in auto-downloading advertisement clients and other things without telling you. You should check msconfig every few months and make sure nobody sneaked anyting in on you.

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Eagler · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2001, 01:14:00 PM »

thanks Lepturn

didn't know about that one

Eagler

Ping · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2001, 03:51:00 AM »

Yes..thnx Lephturn. Thats one I will have to remember

Ping

Kwan · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2001, 10:01:00 PM »

FSG.exe is a part of a program that you got with the newest version of RW...Found this in the GRC/spyware newsgroup...
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I found that Roger Wilco, the video games voice chat app. that allows gamers
to communicate with each others hands free has decided to sell its soul to
the devil... (er, gator.com)

Anyway, it installs an exe file in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory called
FSG.exe and makes it a system run command by adding a link to it in the
registry key
\\HKEY_LOCAL_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ or
something like that, I'd have to look it up.

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Qoute from GRC/spyware newsgroup
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Fortunatly, Gator is installed via the FSG.exe downloader...so, if you
do want to install RW, all you have to do is use ZoneAlarm or another
outbound firewall to deny Internet access to FSG. Then, just End Task
the FSG program and delete the executable. Uncheck the FSG/Trickler box
under Startup in MSCONFIG to disable the registry entry.

It's still sneaky and underhanded of them to bundle this with RW, but at
least it's easy to disable and get rid of... Too bad that, since the
death of BattleCom, there aren't really any good alternatives to RW for
gamers...

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Bummer............... :{

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