Photobucket & Antivirus 2009

[Tomo]

I just uploaded a video to photobucket to share on this forum and the link took me to AntiVirus 2009 pop up page. Be careful if you use Photobucket until they get this fixed. I did a search and many people are having this issue with Photobucket.

Antivirus 2009 is a spin off of Antivirus 2008, 2007, etc. It is a hijacking type of virus. If you see any kind of antivirus pop-up you need to ctrl-alt-del then end the task. Do not click anywhere in the box as it will activate the program. Even the red X starts the program. My computer is armed like Fort Knox and this still made it through.

All is not lost if you accidentally click into it though. Windows XP and Vista have a restore feature that can take you back to a point in time where your computer was ok.

 

[dbltree]

Thanks for the heads up!

Here's another problem that one needs to watch for...

Downandup/Conficker worm infects 9 million PCs

 

[bukket]

If anybody happens to get the AV2009 infection you can download and run a progroam called Malware Bytes AntiMalware (MBAM) to remove it. MBAM is a great freeware package that functions much like Spybot or AdAware.

 

[iowabucks]

Tomo -- I was on Photobucket a couple days ago and saw the same thing. I knew it wasn't right. I just got my computer straightened out a couple weeks ago from a trojan attack, so i'm alot more careful now.

Just the fact that it wouldn't let you close it out any way tells you somethings fishy. It started a fake scan telling me my computer was full of viruses. I eventually did a ctl/alt/delete, closed it out and ran my own virus scan and spyware scanners and was told everything was fine.

Everyone watch out for this.