Why does photobucket redirect

Remember Me. Forgot your login? Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Enable JavaScript on your browser for most GaiaOnline features to work correctly. Aged Codger. Liberal Bibliophile. Welcome to Gaia! My Gaia GCash Shops! Forums World Games Catch. This appears to be done intentionally. Targeted ads sometimes want to know what browser you are using too. Yet, overall, I agree with the DNS suggestion. Me, I like clearing browser "cache" now and then. On old machines, the lared'history' tended to slow me down but losing it hampers me for a bit.

Don't forget your cookies while on the site but the loss of all my cookies caused me to have to remember account names, etc. That's why I keep a notebook. I have been viewing Photobucket pages after clearing the DNS cache for the last 4 days and I have not had my browsers redirect to a scam. I think Photobucket has way to many thing going on in their web pages.

It seems lately it has been getting worse. As a whole Norton has failed me on two occasions that I remember. Malwarebytes and Combofix were able to find something to fix those two times. Both were browser hijacks that Norton failed to catch. Fortunately, nothing seems wrong at the moment with browsers and no rogue processes or programs I can find. After this scare, I'm sticking with imgur.

I read a review on Norton Website Check of similar malicious redirects on photobucket recently. Posted 22 August - PM.

Your post 2 is a superb tip which should interest everybody, it certainly did me and is a bonus in reading this thread. I followed your directions and now have Eset smart scanner on my desktop. I ran it and 5 threats popped up, which were quarantined. I noticed a threat with "virus" in the description on the first run where I unchecked the delete box, but it was not there on the other two runs with the delete box checked - odd. Posted 11 September - PM. Sorry to bump this, but I was looking for confirmation that I am okay.

Everything has been fine since. Could chrome have blocked the malicious parts of that drive by? Posted 12 September - AM.

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A solution for Photobucket would be good too, but PB isn't as bad because at least you can get to the source image when inspecting the page. Imgur does it as well, but that is the lesser of all image hosting evils, so I'll forgive that site!

What exactly are you trying to achieve with that? I click on the link and get no redirect to tinypic just image in the browser window. This image? I used wget and then copied to another hosting site.

Destination Capodecina Joined: 31 May Posts: 20, Open image or open in new tab works, clicking brings you tinypic website. Cheers guys.