Warning to those who use photobucket

Crossposting...​

It seems photobucket has been hacked and is now triggering avast as well as other antivirus/adware programs.

There is a thread on the photobucket forum
http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=25267
http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=32727

it does not affect photos that are linked and already there it tries to access your pc when you are on the photobucket site attempting to upload/delete/move etc. photos from your albums.

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this just happened to me like 15 minutes ago

 

Crap! Does it happen when you visit or just when making changes to the account? Don't want to go there and get hacked. What are they doing about it?

 

From their website...

For those of you who believe that your computer may be vulnerable, here is tip.

Please go to
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
and download this program.

After downloading, please run a quick scan while connected to the internet. After doing this, run a second quick scan while not connected to the internet to ensure that you have completely removed the threat.