Since this has come up I'll post what happened to me yesterday.
Using MyIE2, I had several windows open, TechSpot among them, and I was looking at some other forums. These were forums that I had done a Google search for, looking for a fix to a problem. There was one very small forum that, when I opened it, I got a popup from my AV, Norton 2004, that a trojan had been detected and could not be fixed. I was also redirected to a porn site, which I immediately clicked off of.
Now I don't for one second think that this alert was caused by TS, but the forum that I was looking at appeared to be legitimate, and did show up in a Google search, BUT, it must have been fake, and I don't even remember the name of it. And I probably had seven or eight windows open at the time.
About all I can say is, I was totally shocked when this happened. Norton told me I had a Trojan, that it could not fix. It said to shut down and roboot into safe mode and run a virus scan, which I did. It didn't find a thing, so I don't have a clue if it was for real or not. And I have all the latest updates, for XP as well as Norton. Anyway, in addtion to the scan, I cleared the history, all cookies and temp. files.
Again, I want to make clear, I don't see how it's possible it could have come from TS and don't believe that it did.