[meteorite-list] Unsafe Photobucket Sites

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:18:08 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=3To=f60bmmttP4eKXS0n2KuKtaTghziQ-ifUB_at_mail.gmail.com>

I received an alert from a list member who said his Norton flagged my
photobucket links as having a trojan virus. But, the Norton incident
report gave a completely different source URL than my link. FWIW, I
use PC-Tools Anti-Virus and SpyWare which is updated almost daily. I
haven't received a single alert on any of my photobucket files.

So when these Norton alerts come up, check the alert report and read
the details - the offending virus file is often located at a URL that
is entirely different than the link that was clicked on - odd.

I would wager that some kind of script that photobucket is using is
intrusive and some anti-virus programs are flagging it as a virus -
maybe they have some kind of tracking routine that mimics the behavior
of some spyware? Just a guess. I've heard reports that Norton and
McAffee (sp?) often send erroneous reports, and my old McAffee used to
repeatedly send me false alarms on my desktop PC.

I say all of this because I know 100% for certain that nothing I have
uploaded to photobucket contains any sort of virus of spyware. My
system is completely clean and my laptop's hard-drive has never seen a
single byte or porn, pirated software, file sharing, suspicious email
attachments, etc. I bet my PC is cleaner than some nuns and monks.
So if someone's virus software flags something I posted, the virus
software is wrong.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 8/10/10, Thomas Webb <webbth1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> List,
> My Norton Anti-virus program has deemed every Photobucket link I've clicked
> on lately an unsafe site. Evidently there are some viruses such as
> Downloader and BloodhoundExploit.281 lurking in there!
> Thoma
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