Trip Advisor (TripAdvisor) virus infection reports.

Over the last few months, Trip Advisor has been involved in a near
relentless campaign to cajole, harass, pester, bully and otherwise
press its members into joining FaceBook.

As part of the TA initiative to merge ever closer with FB, TA has
applied software to enable its herded rank and file to conjoin their
TA/FB memberships.
However, on the TA dot com (.com) site, as opposed to the .UK site,
there seems to have been a few, er, glitches.
Members have faced the disturbing realization that TA has researched
their status in another website (FB) and that TA has presumed the
right to log its members out of an other website (FB), without any
permission from those members to do so.

Anyhow, in the last say, 24 hours, there have been reports within the
TA forums by numerous individuals saying that whilst on TA, a "system
tools" Trojan infected their computers.

It has been suggested that those of us who visit online communities
outside TA or FB ask there (here) if anyone there (here) has also been
affected and this is to establish if the virus really came from TA, or
the infection was but a coincidence.

Here is one such tripadvisor forum discussion about the virus.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowFor...or_better.html
i... if you dare to open it. (personally I've had no problems)

On Dec 27, 2:53*pm, aquachimp
wrote:
Over the last few months, Trip Advisor has been involved in a near
relentless campaign to cajole, harass, pester, bully and otherwise
press its members into joining FaceBook.

As part of the TA initiative to merge ever closer with FB, TA has
applied software to enable its herded rank and file to conjoin their
TA/FB *memberships.
However, on the *TA dot com (.com) site, as opposed to the .UK site,
there seems to have been a few, er, glitches.
Members have faced the disturbing realization that TA has researched
their status in another website (FB) and that TA has presumed the
right to log its members out of an other website (FB), without any
permission from those members to do so.

Anyhow, in the last *say, 24 hours, there have been reports within the
TA forums *by numerous individuals saying that whilst on TA, a "system
tools" Trojan infected their computers.

It has been suggested that those of us who visit *online communities
outside TA or FB ask there (here) if anyone there (here) has also been
affected and this is to establish if the virus really came from TA, or
the infection was but a coincidence.

Here is one such tripadvisor forum discussion about the virus.http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowFor...s_make_TripAdv...
i... if you dare to open it. (personally I've had no problems)

All fixed say TA having removed the add that had caused it.