Warning to those who use photobucket

[Danegirl2208]

Crossposting...

It seems photobucket has been hacked and is now triggering avast as well as other antivirus/adware programs.

There is a thread on the photobucket forum
http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=25267
http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=32727

it does not affect photos that are linked and already there it tries to access your pc when you are on the photobucket siteattempting to upload/delete/move etc. photos from your albums.

 

[shadowfacedanes]

Super. That explains my thread earlier about the problems I was having. At least now I know I wasn't imagining things. I hope it hasn't f'd my computer up.

 

[Renee750il]

Upload to www.chazhound.com/pictures

 

[scob89]

Time to switch to Imageshack or something like that, tho the problem does not seem to be with the photobucket site, just the 3 party ads.

Personally, I prefer DropBox because there are no ads at all.

Flickr is good too.

 

[shadowfacedanes]

Upload to www.chazhound.com/pictures

I tried, but my pictures are too large, and I can't open photoshop on this computer so I have to use another hosting site to resize them first.

Scob, you're pretty computer savvy....is there a trustworthy free antivirus program I can install on my computer?

 

[scob89]

AVG 8.0 Works perfect, there is no ads in the program either. I've been using AVG for about a year and have never gotten a virus, On average with Norton antivirus, I would get 4 a year.

 

[RedyreRottweilers]

Also, try Irfan View for resizing photos. Free, easy to use.

 

[shadowfacedanes]

AVG 8.0 Works perfect, there is no ads in the program either. I've been using AVG for about a year and have never gotten a virus, On average with Norton antivirus, I would get 4 a year.

Can you give me a link to it? Knowing my luck, if I google it, I'll download a fake that will infest my computer.

 

[scob89]

Can you give me a link to it? Knowing my luck, if I google it, I'll download a fake that will infest my computer.

Here ya go.

http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?tag=mncol;pop

 

[shadowfacedanes]

Thanks! :thumbup:

 

[Punkygirl0101]

People always say flickr...but I don't like it because I upload a LOT of pictures..And Flickr doesn't hold that many without paying for the upgrade. .

Hopefully photobucket will be fixed. Cause I like PB and use PB.

 

[scob89]

I like flickr because of the online community that supports it and I have got to know some people on there as well, its pretty much a very friendly place, and if someone leaves you a nasty comment you can delete it yourself.. Photobucket is just meant to upload, store, and allow you post post pics on a forum or any other site. Once you have a pro account at flickr picture uploads are unlimited but the pictures can only be a max size of 20MB per picture. Not really a problem for anyone, yet.

 

[Phoenixangelwyngs]

maybe this is what happened to my desktop..... it pooped out on me *sigh*

 

[MeatyTreats]

Gimp is free and is an excellent tool.