Malware site on Photobucket?

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barbaz
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Malware site on Photobucket?

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Went to photobucket to view some images, and saw escokuro.com in my script list... it wasn't there before.. it wasn't present in my ABP filters, so did a search, and found almost nothing informative.. except this:
That Photobucket is a damn trojan ....
httq :// cdn . www1 .escokuro. com /inf_pu_toolkit_v2.swf SWF/Exploit.ExKit.AT trojan
connection terminated - quarantined
Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
(link broken by me)

That domain went straight to Untrusted and is blocked in several other addons here as well now. I think I should even add it to my HOSTS file.

Did NoScript fully stop the threat simply by not letting anything from that domain load?
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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Re: Malware site on Photobucket?

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Offhand, I'd say, probably. Only sites that can run active content would be able to attack your machine. So unless someone put malware into the main photobucket domain, you're probably OK.
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Re: Malware site on Photobucket?

Post by barbaz »

Good. I didn't think there was any issue given that I have antivirus monitoring everything my browser would fetch and nothing was flagged, but did a full system scan with ClamXav anyway before I saw your response, and the only files that turned up infected were definitely not related to this (possibly false positives, actually), so given your reply I think I'm fine.

Just shows how important it is to use some kind of default-deny tool for potentially dangerous stuff.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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