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photobucket trojan??????

lowercasebill
lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
5:30AM i was just getting into photobucket and outlook was downloading e-mail and i got a trojan,, trend micro has done a good job scanning e-mail so i suspect it came from photobucket.. not sure but be carefull
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    there is a fake virus that keeps coming from photobucket, it really screws things up if you dont catch it fast enough. its a scam to buy an antivirus program that wont help.
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    thanks .. i could not get rid of the fake microsoft warning window .. malwarebytes finally got me cleaned up
    now i am afraid to go back to photobucket,.
    i got to switch to something else ...
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    im pretty sure its in the adds on pbucket. if you dont catch it quick enough it will disable malwarebytes and other programs. my puter guy needed to connect to a separate hard drive that was clean to clear it up. the name in the microsoft warning window keeps changing, i think mine was called internet security 2010 but ive seen it called all sorts of things, very annoying, my new windows 7 with updated norton seems to work well against it
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • WokOnMedium
    WokOnMedium Posts: 1,376
    I caught that last winter. I use smugmug now. I suspect that since Photobucket is free to users, they have ads, and those ads plant a scam. I to call in help to get rid of it. The $35 I paid for smugmug is much cheaper than getting help for that a couple times...
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  • Capt Frank
    Capt Frank Posts: 2,578
    I had the same thing about a year ago. It nearly ruined my computer and I lost a lot of my files, especially photos. :angry:
    I switched to Flickr, which is owned and operated by Yahoo, no problems since B)
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    get adblock plus for firefox. no ads
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,594
    the sick thing is it gets you to delete the files thinking your attacking it ;)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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