The file gator.exe, known as Gator Client Application, belongs to software GAIN by Gain Publishing. GAIN is an adware program that displays and downloads advertisements using the Gator Client application. The Gator Client monitors the user's browsing activity, and floods the user with intrusive popup advertisements. It also has the ability to attach a toolbar or search bar to the browser without the user's knowledge and approval, or hijack the default homepage and settings, making it difficult for the user to replace the original settings. GAIN is usually installed as a component of some freeware that the user has downloaded and installed in the computer. GAIN stands for Gator Advertising Information Network, and is not exactly dangerous but it consumes the computer's resources without providing any benefit the user. This software is considered a security risk since it tracks Web usage to better target ads that are served to the user as popups.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. gator.exe. is used by GAIN, If you shut down gator.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop gator.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is GAIN, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed gator.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as GAIN, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if gator.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that gator.exe, belongs to, in this case GAIN