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Offline T-Man

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Imageshack might not be safe!
Heya people. Was checking out a couple of model links that had imageshack pictures (http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=322916) and one of them slapped me with a virus (a person on the linked forum, 'Alan Phipps', states he got the same thing and the same virus).

I get a lot of 'pop-up blocked' warnings when i go to imageshack, so starting to get a bit worried that they might be getting virus-laden ads in their ad system. I know a lot of people here use imageshack for their pictures so thought i'd spread the word (if you could too i'd apprechiate). I think my AV fried whatever it was (dbl. checking now) but if you've had wierd 'virus detected' pop-ups that arn't from your AV you might want to run a scan ASAP.

Sorry to uber-panic like this (this is what happens when you let someone paranoid loose on the net! :lol:)!
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Offline watsisname

Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Imageshack has been growing steadily less popular, specially after they stopped allowing direct image links.

I use imgur nowadays.
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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
photobucket.  the worst thing i can say about them is twice a year or so i'll get an email i don't care about from them.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Imgur is the way to go.

 

Offline redsniper

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Tinypic seems okay so far.
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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Avast! told me something tried to download from there.  It blocked it, though.
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Offline AtomicClucker

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
I can and will support the notion to abandon imageshack. I've since gone over to imgur for my image needs. Some people say we need ads to support services; partly true, but ads delivering malware is no excuse. Adblock and Noscript ho!
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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
I used to be a 100% IE guy.  Adblock is the sole reason I changed.  Unfortunately, it seems to be loosing effectiveness lately.  Ads are starting to get through in ways that I can't just add them to the filter, like imbedded in flash or popups on the page that I can't figure out how to block.  I wish there was an adblocker for IE.  Seems like there could be with the new versions that support ad-ons of all other kinds.
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Offline redsniper

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Well I mean, there's a constant race between the ad makers and the adblock guys. If you're seeing ads get through then it means they've found some new exploit and the adblock people are probably figuring out how to block it. If you want something that will block all ads, all the time, every time, forever, then you're going to be disappointed.
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Offline AtomicClucker

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
I used to be a 100% IE guy.  Adblock is the sole reason I changed.  Unfortunately, it seems to be loosing effectiveness lately.  Ads are starting to get through in ways that I can't just add them to the filter, like imbedded in flash or popups on the page that I can't figure out how to block.  I wish there was an adblocker for IE.  Seems like there could be with the new versions that support ad-ons of all other kinds.

I use noscript, then several more addons like better privacy, https everywhere, etc. For an extreme measure, I tinkered with Firefox/Iceweasel and killed the majority of any disk or cookie storage to kill the ads.

Carpet bombing is not an easy answer, but it beats getting phallic enhancement ads. Case in point; while in one of my higher level history classes, a teacher showed us a selection of greek classical nudes with imageshack, then we got bombarded with both sexual enhancement ads and porn pushers. Awesomely hilarious, but nerve wracking when the majority of the class is breaking diaphragms during a finals lecture.
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Offline Kolgena

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
How do you get imgur to upload images without reducing the quality? Imageshack was nice in that you could upload things without reducing the quality.

 

Offline Spoon

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Tinypic seems okay so far.
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Adblock and Noscript ho!
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Because of this, I haven't had any issues with imageshack. This malware and shizzle has passed me by unnoticed.

Imageshack has been growing steadily less popular, specially after they stopped allowing direct image links.

Oh? I uh, must say I haven't gotten that memo. I've been using direct image links for a long time now and they all seem to be working fine still?
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Offline AtomicClucker

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
imgur, to my knowledge, doesn't re-size my pictures, but there are options to compress image size.
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Offline Alex Heartnet

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Yeah, I was rather surprised when an imageshack popup pretended to be Microsoft Security Essentials.  Imageshack was always okay to use before, if a bit slow, but now I will have to find a different site.  I can just imagine that a couple of months from now, some corporate boss will be wondering why imageshack ad revenue is way down, while unable to make the connection between poor service and loss of popularity.

 

Offline mjn.mixael

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Imageshack only blocked access to the direct links. If you are a savvy internet user, you can figure out what the direct link to your image is with relative ease. The link will still work too.

However, regardless of the malware or viruses... I've hated Imageshack for a long time simply because the site is gawdawefully slow...
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Offline The E

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
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If you are a savvy internet user, you can figure out what the direct link to your image is with relative ease. The link will still work too.

Yeah, but that's just an unnecessary hurdle as far as I am concerned. Not to mention that if your site gets repeatedly greylisted by various AV vendors, it does not speak well of how your business is run.
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Offline Kolgena

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Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
imgur, to my knowledge, doesn't re-size my pictures, but there are options to compress image size.

imgur is saving everything I put up at 80% jpeg quality. It all looks like **** once it's done with it.

 
Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Imageshack is slow and virus-ridden, been that way for a long time. I never used it, because of that: used tinypic until they stopped accepting non-US users (in addition, they re-use your image urls! that's just evil), but now I use imgur. The only downside of imgur is that they compress any images above 1MB, which may indeed lead to quality loss.

 
Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Imageshack is slow and virus-ridden, been that way for a long time. I never used it, because of that: used tinypic until they stopped accepting non-US users (in addition, they re-use your image urls! that's just evil), but now I use imgur. The only downside of imgur is that they compress any images above 1MB, which may indeed lead to quality loss.

IIRC a free imgur account will automatically resample anything bigger than 256 kiB.

 
Re: Imageshack might not be safe!
Which is the one that's "a place to slap up your images" or something, that's being used a lot around here?

I've been using Imageshack for years, never really had a problem with it, and I'm not sure what you mean by "removed direct links"? You mean like if you want only the image with no thumbnail, description, stupid imageshack viewer junk? Or something else?