Imagehost Problems, Imagebam, Imagevenue, PimpAndHost, PixHost, ImgBox etc

[thedrifter]

Originally Posted by rlg118

I'm getting that as well. Annoying.



I don't see it when I open this snap! Could be a false positive - it's happened before.

Wow and here I thought I was the only getting these. Glad to see Im not alone and its still happening for me

[Biggerone]

html-inf on every link I am opening. Wasn't a problem yesterday. "False Positive" Any ideas mates, thanks?

Confirmed, a web search at Avast forums indicates it is blocking other image sites as well, not just my own system. Someone suggested it could be a mass site outtage but it is occuring with other sites. Has anyone else had issues accessing imagebam? With avast installed.

[SanteeFats]

Don't know all your particulars. I use Firefox and have Kaspersky. Imagebam works fine for me and has for many days, weeks, months.

[pharoahegypt]

Speaking as a laptop repair tech..... Avast is as big a pile of doggy-do-do as you'll ever find...! Try something less fancy looking but that does the job... like AVG Free.

Spend more time removing Avast; along with Norton and McAfee; from laptops and replacing it with another anti-virus programme than anything else...

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

I'm using AVAST now for about five years and it was always very reliable.
Sure it can be a false alarm, but it sounds to me very unlikely.

We have to watch IMAGEBAM a little closer, I think. Something has happen with it.
The alarm did not happen at the thumps on the forum sites, but if you try to open any of the pictures.

I'm sure that they have been very reliable. All I'm suggesting is that obviously some type of a nuisance issue has arose which is occurring with numerous other Avast users which presently cannot seem to be pinpointed. Avast users would seem to have three choices: Try to locate and remedy the issue/nuisance; Live with the nuisance; or get rid of the nuisance.

I use Firefox with Kaspersky anti-virus (and set on High security for operating in dangerous environments), and I have not encountered one single threat alarm or warning with Imagebam or imgbox images which Avast users are presently receiving.

[effCup]

It could be a change in avast's software code/"sensitivity". Another possibility is that imagebam and imgbox have perhaps altered some javascript running on their sites and that this "alarms" avast's software when it runs. That may explain why the blocking seems to occur after the image has completed display in the browser window... except that it leaves open/unexplained the oddity that it is not all image files on those hosts but only some that trigger/encounter this problem.

[milliem]

The same problem for me with Imagebam and Imgbox.

I completely trust Avast so I won't be removing it any time soon. However these warnings make using VEF pretty pointless at the moment because every time I've clicked on a thumbnail I've had a malware warning. Never mind. I'll come back next week and hopefully the infections or false positives will have been removed.

[haliose]

do not use AVG its hard to remove ,plus all those virus are still on ur cmputer ,i used avg uninstaller to get rid of AVG!!!!!

[cooljcb]

I get a page pop-up like this but only when there are 'Adult' adverts on Imagebam:



Running Avast with Firefox.

[Moon Raker]

Originally Posted by effCup

It could be a change in avast's software code/"sensitivity".

That is entirely possible and a very plausible explanation. I use Malwarebytes Pro with Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit for zero-day threats and I have noticed that I sometimes (but not always) get 'redirects' or unwanted pop-ups when clicking on images. These are not stopped or reported by MWB as they appear to be unwanted advertising rather than anything more malicious. However, to be absolutely sure, I use Ctl/Alt/Delete to delete the process - and then clicking on the same image a second time usually takes me direct to the JPG without problem.