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chebby · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: Tagasuarus a threat?

I first brought up the subject of TagASuarus which comes along with the ads now playing on the forums:

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and the member of my forum who first raised this question is still having "issues". (Please note that I have removed the ads from my forum to registered members who are logged in)

I visited the VV-com site several times in the past few days to find no more adds or pop-ups and Spybot search and destroy has told me my computer has been clean ever since. That was nice while it lasted.

This evening on the VV-com site I click on the "Forum" tab and you know it. The POp-ups where happening even before the Forum page was loaded. Low and behold there are those pesky adds again. So I emediatly disconect from the net, run a virus scam and yes. There it is again.
"(TagASaurus: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer)":

A google search describes "TagASaurus" as a trogen virus but my virus scanner does not see it as that.

Like the name says this thing "Tags" itself behind those pop-ups which are taging thenselves onto those adds, I am certain that is how it sneeks past my security programs.

I also searched Google briefly and most of the information about it suggested that it was a potentially bad thing for computer users. Malware. (yet they may have been trying to sell their removal program)

Has anybody looked into this in depth?

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