just so you all know, this virus is known to show up on any site that contains random ads (eg. mortgage, college, insurance ect.) photobucket also has this problem.

P.S. try googles Picasa for photo hosting, NO ADS

Oi folks, this is getting out of hand :cold:
all I was saying was that: if you want my short instructions: don't use Internet Explorer to surf the web. Full stop. Use http://foxit-pdf-reader.en.softonic.com/, for instance, to open *.pdf-files. Of course, the more popular it gets, the more nasty exploits are being tried. I am not a Microsoft basher, on the contrary. I earn my living using their products to write software, some people dole out a lot of cash for. Some of these products are simply great. Some are plainly not so.

The very design decision to make a browser capable of launching a process with system rights makes it a hot target. All other browsers are simply programs" that inherit all restrictions from the current user. Plus, if you don't shoot at Internet Explorer, then all of a sudden you are faced with an entire "zoo" of browsers - with totally different attack vectors. So in short: even MSIE 7 (Pro!) is a very nice browser; use it on your intra net. Number 8 is even better. But there still are pretty nasty exploits out there which will lead to code being executed as "system" and not just as "you". It is not very likely that anyone who possesses these skills will actually use them in your company - so the use of MSIE for a corporate network browser can still be definitely considered safe.
I still prefer my http://www.opera.com/, though :celebration: :flamethrower:

The common sense, not to enter my credit card details on some dodgy kind of site, I thought, went without saying. And of course, you
are totally right: first of all goes common sense, nay, even alertness on the wild wild web. What you surf is what you get.

Ah well, my skin is made from asbestos. :flame:
Get it on!

Buy space/domain from a hosting company, usually even cheaper than that and you have all the space you need to house pictures and videos - that's what I do, granted, I had a website before I started to worry about that aspect of being on the net and in a community where I share things.

I'll cheerfully concede that any popular site can be a target - Photobucket, Disney, and NaughtyGirlsMudWrestling.com - that's why no site can be considered completely safe, and a degree of common sense should always be used online.

Since this discussion doesn't really have anything to do with mods, I'm going to lock it down. Do of course feel free to continue to discuss the pros and cons of browsers in Community Discussion.

To answer the original question, I had a quick chat with APY and he assured me that he is always readily contactable at PES, via email, or - of course - here.