Virus warning ! - read this immediately -

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  1. Mark14

    Mark14 Star Wide Receiver

    full computer scan, no viruses or anything to be worried about
     
    Mark14, Apr 12, 2011
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  3. Taxidermist

    Taxidermist Collector of US/IL/RU/DE

    Just checked it myself:

    Submission date:
    2011-04-12 21:56:44 (UTC)
    Antivirus report:
    Webscan result: 0 /6 (0.0%)
    Normalized URL: http://i191.*/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/9d2972af.jpg
    URL MD5: 35e68094fd306875290f293236a0b1a1
    Content-Type: image/jpeg

    So, yeah, false positive is a possibility.
     
    Taxidermist, Apr 12, 2011
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  4. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Kind of weird for it to be a false positive when it wasn't yesterday, or at any time previously. Especially since the virus is almost 3 years old.
     
    GDJMSP, Apr 12, 2011
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  5. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I just checked several of his images using Virustotal - they are all infected.
     
    GDJMSP, Apr 12, 2011
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  6. Taxidermist

    Taxidermist Collector of US/IL/RU/DE

    I checked one (9d2972af.jpg), showed no infection. Maybe i picked a clean one.
     
    Taxidermist, Apr 12, 2011
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  7. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I don't know what you are checking, but everything I am checking says this -

    0 VT Community user(s) with a total of 0 reputation credit(s) say(s) this URL is benign. 0 VT Community user(s) with a total of 0 reputation credit(s) say(s) this URL is malicious.
     
    GDJMSP, Apr 12, 2011
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  8. jloring

    jloring Senior Citizen

    Being the skeptic that I am... well, something just doesn't seem kosher about this. Is this an isolated case, or are there other PB accounts that have been "hacked"? Just thinking about other possibilities, based on some of the posts I've read over the past day or two. Not sayin', just thinkin'...
     
    jloring, Apr 12, 2011
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  9. Taxidermist

    Taxidermist Collector of US/IL/RU/DE

    What did the line "Webscan result:" say? My check said 0/6, meaning not infected.
     
    Taxidermist, Apr 12, 2011
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  10. coleguy

    coleguy Coin Collector

    Good catch, Doug. I have pretty good virus protection, but I'd still rather not chance it.
     
    coleguy, Apr 12, 2011
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  11. jcakcoin

    jcakcoin New Member

    Thanks Doug!

    I click on his pics a lot, luckily I wasn't on CT for a while
     
    jcakcoin, Apr 12, 2011
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  12. krispy

    krispy krispy

    It's sad to see so many threads loose so many pics, but I'm glad to know the Mods are all over this issue. Thank you!
     
    krispy, Apr 12, 2011
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  13. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    Hey, you know the Sheriff......serve and protect. :)
     
    green18, Apr 12, 2011
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  14. Peter T Davis

    Peter T Davis Hammer at the Ready Moderator

    The pictures are not lost. They are temporarily disabled. When the situation with the virus is resolved they will be re-enabled.
     
    Peter T Davis, Apr 12, 2011
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  15. zekeguzz

    zekeguzz lmc freak

    Thank you for all the effort your putting into this problem. You and Doug and the others are what makes this site great. It
    doesn't go un-noticed. zeke
     
    zekeguzz, Apr 12, 2011
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  16. krispy

    krispy krispy

    Good to know! Thanx.
     
    krispy, Apr 12, 2011
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  17. Coinguy56

    Coinguy56 Member

    I am thankful that I have Bitdefender.
     
    Coinguy56, Apr 12, 2011
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  18. jallengomez

    jallengomez Cessna 152 Jockey

    While I appreciate the mods trying to protect us, these are false positives by probably one of the two or three(horrible) mass-marketed cash cow AV programs. In this case I would guess Norton's. It's had issues before with false positives from the meta-data in images from Photobucket.

    I just viewed a ton of images from EyeEat and nothing. Bloodhound is a relatively innocuous and easily remedied virus, so I wasn't that worried.
     
    jallengomez, Apr 12, 2011
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  19. jallengomez

    jallengomez Cessna 152 Jockey

    Plus there's the little caveat that you couldn't imbed the Bloodhound virus into a true jpeg file regardless of how hard you tried!
     
    jallengomez, Apr 12, 2011
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  20. mralexanderb

    mralexanderb Coin Collector

    I'm just glad that someone is paying attention to what's going on here at CT. Maybe, the virus is benign or a tool of the anti-vurus companies. At least it was noticed here instead of slipping by and possibly doing some real damage.
     
    mralexanderb, Apr 12, 2011
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  21. smokeriderdon

    smokeriderdon New Member

    Huh, considering I was clicking on his pics yesterday left right and center, and I have Norton and nada....
     
    smokeriderdon, Apr 12, 2011
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