Virus from Photobucket!...

[ex-member Raikey]

hey folks,...

just wondering if anyone has picked up the spyware virus from Photobucket recently?...

i picked it up on friday last week and couldnt work out how,...

did a system restore and it went,...

then (because i didnt know the cause) uploaded some more pics for use on here,...

and POW!! it came back,...

so laptop went to head office (yes i use my works laptop lol)

came back clear, and they told me i was "fully protected" ,..and should be ok to use pic hosting sites,..

last night,..photobucket again,..BOOM!!!

Mrs R was weeing herself, and compunded what i already knew,..that i am a bit silly having gone back on there,..

i just thought something as big and popular as Photobucket cant be a risk,...

anyway,....i dont know what to do know,..do i try another site?...where could the virus be coming from,.....?

as you probably guessed ,..i,m no I.T expert,...

maybe i should also avoid "Shaved monkey-jockey pig racing .com"

 

[MSkiba]

Nope not picked anything up.

What did you get infected with? a virus or spyware?

 

[ex-member Raikey]

i think its a fake spyware thing,...

the one that mimics a windows scan,..

then asks for 59 dollars,...haha

first time i just restored,...

2nd time,..it locked out the system restore options,...

 

[sandbender]

Photobucket doesn't try to instal anything on my machine, however the interface looks terrible these days, if there was a way to list where my images are posted I'd move to an alternative image host without hesitation.

 

[ex-member Raikey]

Photobucket doesn't try to instal anything on my machine, however the interface looks terrible these days, if there was a way to list where my images are posted I'd move to an alternative image host without hesitation.

any recommendations?...

 

[Robbi]

had it twice myself

 

[sandbender]

any recommendations?...

Flickr seems popular, I have an account but have yet to use it. Google's Picasa works well.

 

[ex-member Raikey]

Cheers mate,.....

Robbi,...you got it from PB too?

 

[rik_uk3]

I've used it a few time this week and no problems. A quick google said something about it working (the Trojan) with IE. I use Firefox. I would have thought there would be more news if it was a PB problem.

 

[ex-member Raikey]

Sorry Rik,..IE??

 

[789987]

internet explorer.

i would suggest you try firefox with the noscript plugin. stops popups and other potentially malicious scripts running when youre roaming Shaved monkey-jockey pig racing .com

 

[Loenja]

when youre roaming Shaved monkey-jockey pig racing .com

what???

 

[789987]

its the next big bushcrafting fad. get one now - theres a ray mears and a bear grylls variety.

 

[daithib]

This sounds like Liza Moon. It is a vulnerability based on an SQL injection that has affected over 3 million web pages, inserting links to domains such as lizmoon.com that ask you to go to a fictitious "microsoft windows stability center" which will then leadto a malware installation. In this case no-script can save the day by blocking the pop-up on lizamoon.com. Although this is crude and will be unlikely to fool anybody, it would be a good move to ditch Windows at this point unless work requires it. A point that RSA should have noted before somebody nicked the secret behind their password fobs last month, by using a dodgy email attachment.

 

[rik_uk3]

"it would be a good move to ditch Windows at this point" and use what?

 

[ex-member Raikey]

wont it be a little dark without them????

my bro has a Mac,...you mean go that way??

 

[Loenja]

"it would be a good move to ditch Windows at this point" and use what?

linux, i would use it but lightroom dont seam to work in linux

 

[789987]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

is free and works well if youre just surfing with some entertainment and some light office type applications

 

[789987]

oh yeah - you can make a cd of it and then trial run it without affecting your windows setup.

then you can either run them both together or just run ubuntu.

 

[nitrambur]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

is free and works well if youre just surfing with some entertainment and some light office type applications

You mean if you don't really expect it to work like a proper operating system?