I just got a virus that attached itself on my home computer from Photobucket. It's not the same PC that I'm using now. I got a pop-up that said threat detected. It shut Photobucket down, but something was happening with my C drive so I shut it down hard within 10 seconds or so. I have AVG that gets updated regularly. I really hope it didn't get attached, but there was a red X by my C drive in my control panel and a bunch of numbers were scrolling by. I called a local PC repair company and they said it would take at least a couple of hours to fix at $85 per hour, which I can ill afford right now. And the guy that does it is out of town today. That computer is shut down and will be shut down til it's fixed. I do have back up from about a month ago, but if they have to wipe the drive clean and start over, I don't have some of the original CD's for some of the programs. This really sucks! :angry019
:mad: That is terrible! Sorry that happened. Maybe try using your working unit to go to the AVG website to see if they have the threat posted? Or google something like photobucket + virus + drive and see what you may find. Just a thought. Good luck.
Wow! I use Photobucket too. Is it by clicking a photo or just by visiting the site? I use Kaspersky and nothing has popped up to me.
I just went to AVG web site and posted a message to customer service. We'll see where that leads. Thanks!
I was just visiting my portion of their web site, when I got a pop-up that some kind of a threat was trying to get to my PC. AVG shut Photobucket down, but I think the virus got attached to my C drive.
I just uploaded a pic and I had no problems. I guess I'm still safe. I'll do a full virus scan later just to make sure.
It's not a virus. It's spyware... Photobucket are aware of this problem. Read more here When you get the popup, simply refresh page to make it go away.
If it was spyware, why would it attach to my C drive, with some kind of numbers scrolling by? Wouldn't AVG have caught it?
It is most likely spyware or photobucket installing some of their little bits of software on your computer so they can run their easy upload software when you visit the site. Its most likely not a virus but just crap files/spyware/autoloaders for photobucket. Dont waste $85 an hour because honestly, theyre just going to run AVG, see if it finds anything, and call it a day. Or wipe your entire drive and charge you a ton.
Since I depend on this computer for my livelihood, I'll have a computer literate friend take a look at it; hopefully Saturday. They won't charge me anything; well maybe a couple of bars of my handmade soap, which is fine by me.
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Trades are a good thing! :happy088 Call me paranoid, but I'm not turning it back on til someone that knows more about computers than me tells me otherwise.
Probably because the program was messing around with your registry. I NEVER mess with my registry, even when I suspect that some spyware has infiltrated. But there are a couple of things you can do if you run Microsoft. You may already know this, but here goes (instructions are based on Windows XP): Go to "Start" and then select "Run". A dialogue box will appear. Type in "msconfig" and click OK Click on the "Startup" tab. Peruse this list for anything that looks like it relates to Photobucket. In fact, peruse this list for anything that looks like you do not need it when you start up. De-select those items. For example, I de-selected Quicktime because I do not need that to start up every time I start my computer. Make a note of each item you de-select. Click on the services tab. Click on the box that says "Hide All Microsoft Services" then do the same thing. De-select items you think you do not need to start up. Make notes. That will not get rid of it, but it ought to help to not slow you down too much. If anything starts to act weird, you can just go back and re-select things one at a time (by referring to your notes) to see what may be causing an issue.
