I have no idea who Jeff is and apparently the tag-board.com website has been getting alot of other complaints concerning their ads and malicious, automatic, install on demand downloads that most definately contain spyware from some other people.
I had their basic (free) tagboard placed on my own website, (which is a totally free website with no advertising at all), and when I found the problems I dealt directly with the tag-board.com support team via E-mail, after I first removed their board from my website.
At first my complaints were answered by Kimberly. Kimberly (Develsaa) - Tag-board Head of Staff/Co-owner/Webmistress is how the reply to me was signed and was mailed from support@tagboard. Onlinesupportdesk.net.
She completely denied having any knowledge of any downloads being generated by their free board, but when I referred her to tag-board's own forum which has a thread concerning the malicious downloads being generated (http://forum. Tag-board.com/showthread.php? T=874&goto=nextoldest), Kimberly then forwarded my complaints directly to the operator of the tag-board website, Greg Grothaus.
I corresponded with Greg for 3 days concerning this matter before I made my post on usacomplaints.com.
Greg blamed the company that supplies their pop-up ads for adding the malicious downloads to his ad rotation. Tag-board.com must be running so many ads that even THEY can't keep up with them. It's like Greg told me, "hey we never said that we WOULDN'T run ads on websites."
Tag-board.com was at first testing the ads on "selected" websites since June and added the pop-up ads and malicious downloads to every site that chooses to use their basic tagboard only since December. This is stated in the tag-board FAQ at (http://tagboard. Onlinesupportdesk.net/index.php? _a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=45&nav2=Troubleshooting)
I am glad to hear that other people have been giving their opinions at the tag-board.com site's board they run but it was not me that Jeff was dealing with. I dealt only with Kimberly and Greg.
Apparently Tag-board.com continues to "hide" on the internet with their deceptive trade and tactics because there is no street address or telephone numbers listed for their companies and all of their billing is done through pay-pal only. I would think that if tag-board was a reputable company they would at least list a street address or even a billing address and not just the city that they are supposedly based in.
I refuse to stoop to Jeff's and tag-board.com's level and start calling people names like freeloaders, but I do believe that the internet websites should be free and if a company or website decides to offer a product that is advertised as a free product it should be just that, free.
Tag-board.com is still running and profiting from their pop-up ads and malicious downloads on every website that has their (advertised as free) basic tagboard posted on their website, without the website owners knowledge or consent.
Just as a side note, I am also getting alot less spam in my e-mail since I cancelled my tag-board account.
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