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    Default My S&D picked up TagASaurus but

    this infection of TagASaurus only showed up in S&D and none of my other programs CA anti virus and spywear and really i would like to know why, it looks like its gone now but i want to know if it was a false detection or what, can any one please help me stuff like this makes me paranoid.


    hope im posting this in the right place this is my first post.

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    Hello,

    Tagasaurus is a cookie. It is quite common for popular websites to employ such tracking cookies from third parties. They use them in order to track the users' surfing habits on their websites. As I said, these cookies are from third parties but they are employed by the site.

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    spybotsandra:

    If you go into Spybot > Ignore products, TagASaurus is listed as a Trojan. It seems as if the detection rule for the TagASaurus tracking cookie it is in the Trojans.sbi database rather than the Cookies.sbi database.

    The fact that TagASaurus is listed as a Trojan has caused confusion in the past and I believe that the problem should be corrected.

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    Md USA Spybot Fan:
    There are two different detection rules for TagASaurus: One in the cookies section and another one in the Trojans.sbi. So there is a real trojan detection behind that name. Maybe it would be better to split TagASaurus into "Cookie.TagASaurus" and "Trojan.TagASaurus".

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    Markus

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    Markus:

    Thanks for taking a look at the problem.

    Splitting the detections sounds like a good solution.

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    thanks a lot every one i saw Trojan and it freaked me out and again thanks a lot.

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