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by jsteele 1 view

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Has anyone heard for this BOT? I found it on one of my machines that was having a lockup problem. Once I removed it the PC runs fine. I would like to see how it got on there. When I asked the users I got the standard answer, "I did not install anything!" Any info would help. Thanks

John

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by syscokid

TSAdBot is spyware. Somebody installed something!!! But you may never find out what it was.

"TSAdBot, from Conducent Technologies (formerly TimeSink), is distributed with MANY (emphasis added) freeware and shareware programs, including the Windows version of the popular compression utility pkzip. It downloads advertisements from its home site, stores them on your computer, and displays them when an associated program is running. According to Conducent, tsadBot reports your operating system, your ISP's IP address, the id of the tsadBot- licensee program you're running, and the number of different ads you've been shown. It also indicates whether you have clicked on any of the ads. On installation, tsadBot may present an optional survey.If you answer the survey, your answers are conveyed along with the other information gathered by tsadBot. Conducent's privacy statement is available for viewing."

Found that at http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2586415-2,00.html(Delete any spaces if you follow that URL).

by sergey kovzik

sure. this is advertising bot. I had it installed with Reget program. actually it isn't only tsadbox.exe, but some DLL's in system directory too. you can try to move out tsad.dll from windows folder - you'll see immediately what application installed it :)

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