wow...NWS ads on Photobucket???

[LowriderS10]

So I'm at work and it's a slow night, so I'm bumming around, organizing my pics on photobucket...and all of the sudden in a bright pink and black flashing border there's an attractive, but buck-naked girl.

Now, normally I have no problems with such a picture, but I wonder wtf happened with Photobucket. Good thing it's the night shift and there aren't too many ppl wandering around the newsroom...did anyone else see this?

[TechTrix]

I think we're going to need to see the ad in question. Screenshot next time please ;)

[HappySnapper90]

So I'm at work and it's a slow night, so I'm bumming around, organizing my pics on photobucket...and all of the sudden in a bright pink and black flashing border there's an attractive, but buck-naked girl.

More than likely you have spyware, malware, virus, etc. that is putting those ads in your browser. I suggest downloading, then updating, both spybot and adaware free versions. If you don't have antivirus software get AVG free edition that can be found at grisoft.com and do a search there for "free" and a link will show up for it. Good luck.

[LowriderS10]

Thanks for the suggestion, HappySnapper, but there's absolutely no way my computer would have any sort of malware ;) I'm on a work computer and this shizz is locked down like the Pentagon :)

I tried to do a screenshot, but since we're on Macs I had to research how to do that (I'm a PC guy). By the time I figured out how to do it, it went back to normal ads. I'm guessing it's just one that slipped through and they caught it.

[SkipD]

What did you mean by NWS in the thread title???

[Candor]

What did you mean by NWS in the thread title???

I'm assuming it's Not Work Safe.

Let me open my Photobucket and see if I can get to the bottom of this. :D

[LowriderS10]

yeah, not work safe :)

Mike: I doubt it...they pulled it within a minute or two (I was on PBucket all night and it was only up for a few minutes...)

[HappySnapper90]

Thanks for the suggestion, HappySnapper, but there's absolutely no way my computer would have any sort of malware ;) I'm on a work computer and this shizz is locked down like the Pentagon :)


No system will catch everything. Seriously, I wouldn't worry about it.

[LowriderS10]

Haha yeah, I know, just goofing around...and yeah it was more of a "well that was interesting" than a truly worried reaction :D

[René Damkot]

I tried to do a screenshot, but since we're on Macs I had to research how to do that

Well, you found out by now, but for others: Shift+Cmd+3 = screenshot. Shift+Cmd+4 = part of the screen (draw with a crosshair).

[ibdb]

Photobucket has had some issues lately with bad guys slipping things through their advertising processes, including links to malware. This could be another case of that.