Possible Virus at photobucket
 

I keep getting a warning when I log into Photobucket and try to put an image here saying I have signs of a virus/malware etc. I tries to download a antivirus program called Antivirus 2009. It was very hard for me to close the windows that kept popping up. I also shut down my desktop and booted up my laptop and added the links for here and PB. it did the same at PB. I am running a scan now on my laptop.
This isn't popping up with the warning at any other sites except PB.
My firewalls and antivirus are up to date on both computers.
just wanting to let you all know there may be something trying to infect from the site there. I'm afraid to go back so I don't know how to report this there.
I will check here tomorrow to see if anyone here has had trouble there.

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Antivirus 2009 IS the virus. I've been using AntiVir Personal Edition at the school. Also, Microsofts own malware remover does a good job. To use it, right click on the desktop and type MRT in the line that comes up. The simply double click on the new desktop icon you just created and do a complete system scan.

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Antivirus 2009 IS a Trojan. You are now infected. Seriously. This is also a very hard thing to get rid of.

The best thing is Malbytes "Malware"...follow this link,download the program and follow the instructions

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malw...antivirus-2009

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BTW ANY TIME...anytime you get a popup that says you are infected, download this antivirus program or something like that, instead of clicking "yes or no" or "ok or close" or whatever...click the X in the upper right hand corner.

Make sure you have an active, up to date anti-virus program...no excuses...you can get them free. And make sure you have a couple up to date Spyware programs...again no excuses, you can get those free//

Two virus scanners are AVG free and Avast. I have used both. Avast has everything, but I prefer a better kind of firewall so I use Comodo's free firewall and AVG.

Spyware, you can get two good ones free. Spybot S&D and Adaware

Before you do any of this run that Malware program

Here you can get Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Also Vista comes with a program by Micropuke that is decent. But make sure it is up to date....out of date programs are worthless. New spyware and virus's come out each week and the only way these programs can protect is if they have new signature files weekly....daily

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Thanks Randy and Prax. I did click the X as fast as I could. I have McAfee ( all the bells and whistles) not a trial or free program,and it is up to date. I'm running a full scan now.
I going to do all the other things suggested.
The thing is I haven't done anything different or went to any sites that I normaly visit.
Most of my puter time is spent here. :) lurking
I did the google search about this and yep it really sounds bad. So when all eles fails I'll be re-formatting my computer and laptop. :(

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PB may have been hacked and infected. Was it YOUR PB site or someone elses?

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It was my account at PB. I went there today and wasn't signed in and nothing happened. When I signed in all this tried to download again and IE closed, I had to keep clicking the red x to get that to close.
I did do a search last night at PB in images for a welcome tag and after that is when this all began. grrr
I have saved the link you posted.
Thanks for your advice and help.

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I use Firefox and run a plug-in called No Script. Many of these infections come from what is called Cross-Site scripting vulnerabilities. This plug in allows you to run scripts manually once you know a site is secure and should be considered a mandatory install.

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I had the same problem awhile back. Spybot works well and took care of it.

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I've never had any problems with PB and I saw it is #2 of the Best imaging hosting sites and safe.
I've never used Firefox.

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Thanks, i'm planing to run Spybot when my scan finishes. It did the weekly one yesterday,but since this happened last night i'm running it again.
It tkes a few hours so i'm getting out of the house now away from the putor. I keep cking every few minutes. lol

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In my experience, Spy Bot or Adware have not been able to remove this.

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Nothing came up on the McAfee scan all was 0 and clean.

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Ah, the joy of owning a Mac!!!! :D

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I re-set my password at Photobucket and all is looking good now.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2...y/CWB_AR11.gif
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2...ys/36_20_3.gif

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I have AVG, SpyBot, and Adaware. NONE of those programs can detect nor get rid of the virus I've been fighting for weeks now. I updated and everything but it doesn't detect it, but I believe it's like the Antivirus virus, as it attempts to do computer scans for viruses every 5 minutes or so. But I'm not able to get rid of it so far.

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In my experience, they aren't even detecting a problem.

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That too. LOL

I have been dealing with this at work and Antivir (the free edition) has been the only thing that can remove it.

The other thing is to create a shortcut on the desktop and type in MRT (that is it!) into the run box. The simply click on the short cut and it will run the Microsoft anti-malware program that it pushes down during its monthly updates.

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If smoeone got into you account they might have wrote a script to redirect you to the threat. Still I recommend downloading malbytes Malware and run it.

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I recommended those for AFTER running malbytes "Malware" program. It's the best and only thing that gets rid of it.

The stuff I recommend are more for preventing problems. Also the best part of spybot is the immunization feature

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I'll be looking at this site tomorrow. Spent most of the day on this today. Just thankful nothing is trying to download now. Tomorrow is a busy day so it may be Monday before anymore free time.
Thanks again for all the help.
BTW anyone have the new Windows Live Messenger 2009? If you haven't updated I suggest you don't. I have not been able to uninstall it so far. :sad

Re: Possible Virus at photobucket
 

I strongly recommend downloading Malbytes "Malware" program. It's not a virus protection or a spyware protection. Rather it targets known viruses, trojans or spyware that is the hard to get kind that your Norton, McAfees and spybot never even see or can't get rid of

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Downloaded this program and followed the instructions. In fact I ran 2 scans, quick scan and full scan. Antivirus2009 is not on my computer! Yippee.
Now I will for sure take a nap today after church. ;)

BTW the Malbytes "Malware" is FREE. There is a Malware Pro for purchase.
Thanks Prax for all your help.:thumbsup

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Praxeas rocks!!!!!!

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Good. Keep that program and in the future if something happens, run the update then run the program. I have used it to get ride Anti-Virus 2009 and it's other versions off of peoples PCs using it.

BTW you must not have gotten infected, you rightly just closed the window instead of downloaded the program

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YES! I'm keeping the program in my security folder. Going to download it on my laptop and run the scan also.
I sure am happy not to be infected. Praise The Lord!

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Another good program to use, but takes more expertise is "Hijackthis"...it scans and produces a list and you have to decide what should or should not be there.

Newer versions of Spybot do that too. but if you dont know what yuou are doing you can remove something important

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I ran the program and had some adware that needed to be removed. I did not have the Antivirus2009.

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Do u know what it was that was removed?

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Prax, thanks so much for your help. For the first time in a couple months, I'm virus free!! I've been fighting these things and have downloaded so many programs that were worthless and didn't detect nor get rid of anything, but the Malware did, and so I uninstalled everything but that!!

Thanks again!

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I don't right off hand, I do know they were listed as adware.

Looked at my log and it is adware from PopCap games.

Re: Possible Virus at photobucket
 

Which program did you run?

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Malbytes Malware.

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Hmmm. Alright. Good!

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It is VERY important to remember that if you have what seems to be a big infestation of malware and virus's, the ONLY way to clean things up is a complete reinstall of Windows, followed by your applications. (Make sure you back up your personal data before formatting the hard drive.)

Once a system goes beyond a single virus (and for some virus's and bots, one is enough) it CANNOT be recovered short of a clean format and reinstall.

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So even though all the adware's were quarantined and removed I may still need to do this?

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no

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The wife's pc got a virus and Malbytes cleaned it right up. I'm glad I remembered about this post. Thanks Prax.

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Could that old jpg exploit have been used to do some cross site scripting? I use Photobucket all of the time and the only problems I've ever had involved their newer "Web 2.0" uploader. The "Copy" feature fails sometimes on the direct link, too.

I'd be really disappointed if an otherwise well run site like PB had allowed such a gaff. Maybe HH just has an infected JPG in her (his?) photos hosted at PB?

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I don't remember a JPG exploit. Are your referring to the old GIF one? That one was a mess because there was no single patch..... Just about everything that supported the old CompuServe GIF graphics format needed to be fixed.