Imageshack Promotes Malware

Neverwill - Imagedump seems very, very under construction. Not fast at all for me. No terms of service? I registered and it said "come back on the 15th" Huh??? Looks like it has potential though e.g. 2MB max image size! Saved this:


Seems to work! Going by the url it is just a dump (no album structure) - so if you loose the image link/tag/url you can never find it again?

phawgg - photobucket seems fairly good but they have a 512KB image size restriction and 50MB total space on the free accounts. A bit restrictive for some purposes.

Does anyone have any experience with Photosite?

Edited by Rimmer, 10 January 2006 - 11:55 PM.

Hello, man was I surprised to see that malware. I let my son read the posts as he laughed when I showed him come 5.25's. Well he advised me that he'd clicked a link there to remove something. Anyway I scanned my pc with Adaware to see if it was anything and it found some new things. i cannot be sure if they actually are a result of that click. But I never had comet ware before and I didn't add any screensavers to my pc. Plus the result of 2 possible browser hijack attempts didn't please me. Here is that section of the report.
I also have used Imageshack many times before without seeing anything like that. Again thanks Rimmer for your diligence.

Note: I see now it posts a Casale media advertisement.
Does anyone else's links do this?

POSSIBLE BROWSER HIJACK ATTEMPT
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obj[37]=Regkey : SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\{7E980B9B-8AE5-466A-B6D6-DA8CF814E78A}
obj[38]=RegValue : SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\{7E980B9B-8AE5-466A-B6D6-DA8CF814E78A} "Installer"


COMETSYSTEMS
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obj[35]=Regkey : clsid\{722d2939-a14a-41a9-9eac-ab8f4e295819}
obj[36]=Regkey : clsid\{88d758a3-d33b-45fd-91e3-67749b4057fa}
obj[54]=Regkey : interface\{760aca60-79c3-4875-9d19-b14a5b3fea77}
obj[55]=Regkey : interface\{883ea659-ed80-46f9-9ed2-83327f67789f}
obj[56]=Regkey : interface\{b64c73d7-459e-4816-91f9-1348f8e36984}
obj[57]=Regkey : screensaversinstaller.installer
obj[58]=Regkey : screensaversinstaller.installer.1
obj[59]=Regkey : screensaversinstaller.sinstaller
obj[60]=Regkey : screensaversinstaller.sinstaller.1
obj[61]=Regkey : typelib\{0ab5b0d8-2b74-4c1c-8fa4-e52550b8b45b}

Edited by boopme, 11 January 2006 - 12:12 AM.

Another alternative I just came across is http://tinypic.com/

Tinypic looked good at first, but on closer examination....

Edited by Rimmer, 15 January 2006 - 05:20 PM.

If by misfortune you have the Winfixer scumware here's how to remove it:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...610&hl=winfixer

So what hosting site (s) are left?

Very good question... I'd be happy to hear other suggestions.

I'm still waiting on Imageshack to reply (have sent another "email") but maybe we go back to recommending them with a caveat about the suspect Ads? Likewise Photobucket?

Photosite looks interesting, but I'm having internet problems so cannot check it out at present.

Rimmer perhaps if more gave donations to these photo hosting sites, they would not have to stoop to these levels.... *Shrug Just thinking out loud.

Edited by Scarlett, 16 January 2006 - 09:14 PM.

I'm using this one now:

http://www.imagevenue.com/

Phawgg

Now that one just could be the ticket. Thanks for the link.

For everyone's convenience here are ImageVenue's FAQ's

http://www.imagevenue.com/faq.php

Edited by Scarlett, 16 January 2006 - 07:41 PM.

Registration is optional.
A quick upload/link
or make a directory after registering
and it seems basically unlimited from there.

Or pay 1.66 per month ...

Edited by phawgg, 16 January 2006 - 07:57 PM.

im tellin yah... www.imagedump.net :D haha..there gettin a dual xeon 2.6 server or something like that...and music hosting capabilitys soon

The ImageDump also looks good, Neverwill

I'm having a lot of trouble posting at present because my satellite connection is really flakey and the ISP tells me nothing.
Scarlett - Why is it a problem just having URLs? That's perfect for the "Insert Image" tool in the reply windows. The tool adds the 'img' tags for you.
As regards donations - I don't think they are necessary unless it's obviously a private operation. Most of these image sites are corporations which get revenue from advertising, and usually the free service is just a lead-in to a paid service anyway.

Phawgg - imagevenue looks good. Max size 1.5MB unlimited number of images. Yum!

A representative of Imageshack sent me a confirmation that my emails had been received but made no other comment. Their site ads have been like this -

-for some time now. We won't know for sure unless they comment.

I thought the Imageshack service was pretty solid - very little downtime, quick downloading. I'm thinking I'll go back to recommending them (until I'm confident of Imagevenue etc.) with a warning about possible advertising content.

Now it's Photobucket I'm more concerned about!

Rimmer Good point ie: donations.

I have edited all info. regarding the site I had mentioned.

Not to impressed with the attitude shown by some of it members.
It seems that politeness is not a general forte' there.
And the site itself is quite involved, much more then most members probably need.

I'd rather move on and check out the other suggestions. And well, I do like ImageShack & Photobucket and will continue to recommend them.

In my pinned topic "How to Insert Images Within a Post" I may need to add some sort of warning of the suspect ads in question.
*Shrug
I'd gladly accept any help with the warning. ;)

Edited by Scarlett, 16 January 2006 - 09:23 PM.