Virus warning ! - read this immediately -

All members, this is not a joke !

DO NOT click on any image or picture posted by EyeEatWheaties !

Apparently his Photobucket account has been hacked and every image there is of his has been infected with the Bloodhound virus !

Somehow this happened between yesterday and today. So if in the past 24 hours you have cliked on an image of his, any image - stop what you are doing and run a complete system scan of your computer !

Again - this is not a joke !

 

I've added the url to photo bucket to the censor list, so any image being loaded from there will show up as a ***** now and not load. This is a temporary measure to prevent anyone else from having problems as a result while we look for a long term solution.

 

As an additional note folks - whatever Peter did removes the images. However, the url to the infected is still being posted.

Anyone who copies and paste that url into their browser in order to try and see the pictures will still get the virus when that image opens.

DO NOT even try to to view any of his images. ALL images posted by EyeEatWheaties have been infected !

As long as you just ignore them there is no risk to you ! Repeat - as long as you just ignore those urls for his pictures there is no risk to you !

So please - do not even try to view any image posted by him until we get this resolved. We are working on it as fast as we can.

And yes, Photobucket has been notified.

Also - all other pictures posted on Photobucket are fine - there is no virus in them. But for the time being, no image hosted on Photobucket is going to work on Coin Talk.

For the time being - please bear with us.

Thanks

 

Just wanted to point out an alternative service

http://www.imgur.com/

AFAIK, they don't serve viruses with their photos.

 

Just lucky I guess. When viewing a thread early this morning I clicked on one of his images and my ant-virus software caught it. I deleted those images and posted a warning in that thread.

Then I got to thinking that maybe I had better check his other images just in case, so I did. Every single one had the same virus, and anybody who did not have good anti-virus protection and happened to view one of his images in the past 24 hours undoubtably is now infected with that virus.

When I contacted Peter he changed things so Photobucket images could longer load on Coin Talk - to protect all of you guys. And not just his, but ALL Photobucket images.

In the meantime I contacted Photobucket directly and made them aware of the situation in the hope that they do something on their end since have no control over things hosted on their site. I've still not heard back from Photobucket.

Then I sent an email to EyeEatWheaties, alerting him to the danger and suggested he run scans on his computer. Haven't heard him from either.

Anyway - hopefully I caught it in time so that no one got infected.

 

They have not contacted me since I sent them the info early this morning.

I did however check a few random images on Photobucket, and my own personal Photobucket account - none of those images were infected. I can't speak for all the rest as there are thousands & thousands of accounts.

 

By the way I just checked, his images are still infected. So apparently he has done nothing to rectify the situation and neither has Photobucket.

 

The virus is Bloodhound.Exploit.281 I use one of Norton's products and it caught it.

If you want to see an infected image for yourself send me a PM and I'll send you back the link to one.

But if your computer gets infected - don't blame me.