Photobucket Hacked?

....just logged into my Photobucket account (free, non paying account)....no issues whatsoever. No pop-up ads, nothing untoward at all...boring.

I'm using Firefox 34.0 on Windows 7 Enterprise (an IBM pre-install on Lenovo small-footprint workstation); surfing on a severly reduced profile (read: not surfing in Admin account, fully open to attack!) fully sandboxed (with lots of advanced custom settings); Ad Block + with lots of custom filters...

Could your computer be infected? What op-sys are you using???

Thx Beagle (and all) I know you're offering help and troubleshooting ideas. Please forgive my terse body language (if that came through) :)

it's just frustration speaking. I'll get it figured out with your help. Yes i tried two browsers. Both same problem in a little different fashion. Both only Photobycket. Again, please forgive. I just get intense on the thing at the moment and wasn't wanting that to be computer problems right now. :)

Well, it's like that whole Mac Windows debate I guess. As I understand it Chrome is the Google Internet Browser, as Internet Explorer is the Windows browser. I wouldn't exactly call Chrome adware.

In Chrome on most any page I get normal operation. In Photobucket I get thre tall narrow ads the suggest due to Operating System errors I should download and fix all these things, especially install bunch of windows scanners and stuff, you know, normal adware stuff. It only happens on Photobucket as of now. I try to close those ads with the X and it opens a new bunch of warnings. Oh well, too busy. I'll get back to it later.

Chrome is adware, isn't it? I would use almost anything else before that....

It looks to me like Photobucket updated their website to front more ads. Once you actually get to your library it looks about the same.

Dave Pete - what Dutchman is saying is to use another browser as a TEST (or as a baseline as the other poster described) not as a solution necessarily. If that test works it helps a troubleshooter like your son to determine what the best next step is. At my former company if a user could not get to our web page for some reason the first test I would do is to TEST another browser or to test on another computer to see if it seemed to be a problem on our end or their end and basically where the problem resided. Only after that can you determine where to focus your problem solving time and solution. If Chrome or Firefox works great, then it might be worth the time to uninstall IE and reinstall it, but if it behaves the same, not worth the uninstall/reinstall time and if them compare against another PC on the same browser.

In my case I was just giving you a count on the ads I was seeing in hopes of giving you a baseline as to whether your machine is showing more or not.

I've been using Chrome for a while and have been having similar problems with PB for at least 6 months...every time I go to the home page, some adware opens another tab on the browser behind PB. I don't think there is any malware there, they are just squeezing the nickel as hard as they can before they have to charging users a monthly fee. Or setting the stage to offer an "ad-free" version for $x/mo.

I'm not too sure what all you both meant but I moved away from Internet Explorer to Chrome for this very reason.

I don't want to move to another browser now (Firefox). Every time you change browsers there's a learning curve that irritates me.

And there's the learning curve thing too with the ad management settings for any given page or browser.

:/

Anyway thanks. I'll see how it pans out over time.

I use Chrome with the adblock extension so I'm not sure how many ads were there before, but I just visited photobucket and see that it blocked 12 ads on the main page and the same when I looked at one of my photos.

I had a similar problem ... believe it or not ... with RV.net yesterday. My son, who is a little more of a computer guru than I am, told me when clicking on those apparent 'ads', code is actually embedded in the browser, and when landing on certain web pages, they pop-up in the middle of the page. Mine was attacked on Firefox, and only on RV.net. My son figured out it out and un-installed the program and code that caused the problem.

He said, one way to get rid of the imbedded code was to delete Firefox completely and re-install it. This type of code (for this stupid dumb A** advertising) attacks specific browser. So if you switch to a different browser, it will probably work just fine. Try that.