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Post by azredliner December 22nd 2008, 11:11 am

Servimg.com is a third rate photo hosting website. Pictures often get deleted, or do not load properly or very slow. Yesterday I logged on to Servimg.com and my virus protection (Avast) alerted me that I had run into a virus. I will never use Servimg.com again.

Forumotion should look into using photobucket (or other) for a default photo host.
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Post by Beno December 22nd 2008, 12:08 pm

Hi,

I can deffinatly assure you that Servimig didnt give you a virus. Sometimes virus checkers can think a certain website in this case servimg is dodgy, i would have been when you uploaded your picture that a cookie or tracking cookie (totally harmless) entered your system and your virus checker alerted you.

I hope you understand.

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Post by Base December 22nd 2008, 12:10 pm

Hello azredliner,

Beno is correct. Also, McAfee SiteAdvisor says Servimg is also a GREEN site. Meaning it is not a threat to your computer. Hope that helps! Razz

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Post by Guest March 18th 2009, 8:42 pm

I've got this e-mail from forumotion:
servimg - I picked up a virus at Servimg.com 60889648

is it real? cause I know people who'd try to destroy my forum, and I didn't register there or do anything, so I suspected a phisher...
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Post by yasmel March 18th 2009, 9:06 pm

Cinnamon wrote:I've got this e-mail from forumotion:
servimg - I picked up a virus at Servimg.com 60889648

is it real? cause I know people who'd try to destroy my forum, and I didn't register there or do anything, so I suspected a phisher...

I got that email too and I deleted it because I never registered there.
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Post by MrMario March 18th 2009, 10:11 pm

Serving is part of ForuMotion. The email is fine.
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Post by Nazar March 18th 2009, 10:15 pm

I never had a bug or anything with servimg, it's really a good image host in my opinion
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Post by ZX March 18th 2009, 10:17 pm

Servming is perfectly good, infact in my opinion its a little better than photobucket.
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Post by Nelsaidi March 18th 2009, 10:23 pm

Or it can be a phishing attempt..
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Post by Tarogasini March 18th 2009, 10:39 pm

As soon as i read the title, i KNEW you are gonna say its Avast Very Happy

Good software but WAY too much false positives.
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Post by Guest March 18th 2009, 11:07 pm

MrMario wrote:Serving is part of ForuMotion. The email is fine.
Ok, thanks for the information...
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Post by Nelsaidi March 18th 2009, 11:38 pm

Tarogasini wrote:As soon as i read the title, i KNEW you are gonna say its Avast Very Happy

Good software but WAY too much false positives.

Not false positives, over sensitive. If a string which is PART of a virus, it will alert you, and tell you PART, yes, not necasrily it will do anything, but it has part of a virus or we. You can lower the settings in options i believe, but i <3 avast.
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Post by Darren1 March 31st 2009, 8:32 am

azredliner wrote:Servimg.com is a third rate photo hosting website. Pictures often get deleted, or do not load properly or very slow. Yesterday I logged on to Servimg.com and my virus protection (Avast) alerted me that I had run into a virus. I will never use Servimg.com again.

Forumotion should look into using photobucket (or other) for a default photo host.

I myself use Avast! and Avast has never ever had a problem with Servimg.com
you are most likely picking it up from else where....maybe another site?

Beno wrote:Hi,

I can deffinatly assure you that Servimig didnt give you a virus. Sometimes virus checkers can think a certain website in this case servimg is dodgy, i would have been when you uploaded your picture that a cookie or tracking cookie (totally harmless) entered your system and your virus checker alerted you.

I hope you understand.

Regards,
Beno

That is correct.

Cinnamon wrote:I've got this e-mail from forumotion:
servimg - I picked up a virus at Servimg.com 60889648

is it real? cause I know people who'd try to destroy my forum, and I didn't register there or do anything, so I suspected a phisher...

your Servimg.com account was created, because you (or a user) has hosted an image.
Servimg.com is ForuMotion's version of PhotoBucket.
it is connected to your forum, VIA ur admin panel Wink

Nelsaidi wrote:Or it can be a phishing attempt..

servimg - I picked up a virus at Servimg.com Redface That is not true, could you learn your fact's, servimg is owned by forumotion!


Could you please stop bumping such thread's.
It is NOT providing support.
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Post by whatzit March 31st 2009, 8:37 am

Darren1 wrote:Could you please stop bumping such thread's.
It is NOT providing support.

I am frustrated, Darren, and I am bumping to do just that... get some support. I have waited for a couple of days now, watching the thread where I expounded upon the three wiped-out operating systems, and the thread appeared to be completely dead. I wondered if anyone else had started threads with this issue, and indeed they had.

What, then, would you suggest we do? I am open to suggestion.
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Post by Darren1 March 31st 2009, 8:44 am

That came out the wrong way, it wasn't meant to be such impolite. Sad
(guess I didn't re-read it) TT

whatzit wrote:
Darren1 wrote:Could you please stop bumping such thread's.
It is NOT providing support.

I am frustrated, Darren, and I am bumping to do just that... get some support. I have waited for a couple of days now, watching the thread where I expounded upon the three wiped-out operating systems, and the thread appeared to be completely dead. I wondered if anyone else had started threads with this issue, and indeed they had.

What, then, would you suggest we do? I am open to suggestion.

I understand your frustration
(I am having similar problem's with a friends forum right now)

The only thing that we (users) can do, is keep our antivirus up-to-date & get the best protection possible.

That is all we can do.
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Post by whatzit March 31st 2009, 8:49 am

darren1 wrote:That came out the wrong way, it wasn't meant to be such impolite. Sad
(guess I didn't re-read it) TT


Aw, thank you Darren1. You are a dear. At least you are listening. I'm sad... I miss my forum.
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Post by HotParadox April 4th 2009, 8:43 pm

My site is:
http://scampolitics.forumotion.com/forum.htm

we have a member having the same problem, and the virus in question is named "JS/Xilos". could you please help us out?
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Post by Pip April 5th 2009, 9:24 am

I've also got the same problem and others to do with Servimg potentially reusing URLs - I posted a thread a couple of days ago but no answer yet.

Servimg has major glaring faults - I'm going to have to recommend to all my users that they go back to Photobucket until I know for sure what the outcome of this is.

Popups for FoxyBingo, viruses and trackers are UNWELCOME when simply trying to view a photo.
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Post by Guest May 7th 2009, 9:32 pm

Pip wrote:........ Servimg has major glaring faults - I'm going to have to recommend to all my users that they go back to Photobucket until I know for sure what the outcome of this is.

Popups for FoxyBingo, viruses and trackers are UNWELCOME when simply trying to view a photo.

I strongly agree with you Pip - the persistent nuisance pop-ups in servimg are a flippin nuisance!! Even with "pop-up blocker enabled" I still get the ad with url which starts with "optimisedby...."

For info - I wrote more about that in a topic complaining about Servimg issues, which Sanket has kindly now moved to the "Need a Technician" Board, here .....
Servimg image host not functioning - Technician needed

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