Ebized Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Anyone else getting this when you use the 'bucket'? Scared the shite out of me first time and it does not allow you to shut down the connection other than by ending the internet connection. Anyone know the best way to get rid of it? EDIT: THIS JUST A PRINT SCREEN PIC - SO NO VIRUSES Quote
marzman Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Did you type the photobucket url yourself or click a link? Quote
Ebized Posted February 23, 2010 Author Posted February 23, 2010 Did you type the photobucket url yourself or click a link? Its saved as 'favourite' link - you think I ought to change that? Quote
Beavis Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Had it last night Colin and thought WTF Quote
marzman Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Did you type the photobucket url yourself or click a link? Its saved as 'favourite' link - you think I ought to change that? Yes... try typing directly and it should be fine. I've seen malware that can overwrite your bookmarks before... run a scan too to be safe... Quote
Beavis Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Its not that.I typed photobucket in google and followed the link and got the same thing. Quote
ChrisS Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Similar used to arrive via a link in emails. Had it a few months back. They said they were the forum admin of my ISP. ISP had pre warned us though. Quote
Ebized Posted February 23, 2010 Author Posted February 23, 2010 Did you type the photobucket url yourself or click a link? Its saved as 'favourite' link - you think I ought to change that? Yes... try typing directly and it should be fine. I've seen malware that can overwrite your bookmarks before... run a scan too to be safe... Deleted the saved favourite link and opened a new one going through photobucket's 'front door' and resaved as a favourite and seems OK - so thanks for the advice there Marzman Quote
Beavis Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Did you type the photobucket url yourself or click a link? Its saved as 'favourite' link - you think I ought to change that? Yes... try typing directly and it should be fine. I've seen malware that can overwrite your bookmarks before... run a scan too to be safe... Deleted the saved favourite link and opened a new one going through photobucket's 'front door' and resaved as a favourite and seems OK - so thanks for the advice there Marzman But i dont have a saved link and went through the front door last night and got the same thing as you did Colin Quote
martinmac Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 I had similar issues but now have spyware doctor which sorts them. The problem I had was that when I was installing spyware doctor on the new laptop I wasnt paying attention ( as usual) and downloaded one with a similar name which was a malware. Quote
Ebized Posted February 23, 2010 Author Posted February 23, 2010 Meant to add that I did a full system scan this morning after having the first scare yesterday and nothing showed up. But one thing I did notice yesterday is that it 'appeared' to be an AVG warning, and as I currently use AVG that worried me, so I shut the PC down there and then. My son reassured me that it was almost certainly a malware thing - confirmed by the scan. Given what Beavis has said though, it might be back Quote
Beavis Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Meant to add that I did a full system scan this morning after having the first scare yesterday and nothing showed up. But one thing I did notice yesterday is that it 'appeared' to be an AVG warning, and as I currently use AVG that worried me, so I shut the PC down there and then. My son reassured me that it was almost certainly a malware thing - confirmed by the scan. Given what Beavis has said though, it might be back And i am running Eset nod 32 Colin and that is supposed to be the dogs danglys and that picked nothing up either. But have not had it since last night Quote
marzman Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 But i dont have a saved link and went through the front door last night and got the same thing as you did Colin You obviously just suck Quote
Beavis Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 But i dont have a saved link and went through the front door last night and got the same thing as you did Colin You obviously just suck Be careful you waste of bum wipe Quote
marzman Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 But i dont have a saved link and went through the front door last night and got the same thing as you did Colin You obviously just suck Be careful you waste of bum wipe Treat me nice or i'll go and sulk for 2 weeks... Quote
rich5259 Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 I've had this about a year ago, fixed it by running adaware and spybot. Don't get malwareagent, it IS Malware IIRC Quote
Chris`I Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 I concur, looks like Malware to me. Spybot and Adaware should sort it Quote
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