I just saw this really useful article on yahoo and thought I would share it with you. Something about malware and a threat to US computer users. I just did a check of my computer - there are helpful links in the article - and I don't have anything wrong with my DNS set up. I thought it was worth checking and worth sharing with the flist. I would hate to see anyone infected. This gives you a quick and easy way to check your DNS and then a way to resolve the issue if you have the malware.

Anyhoo. Read this here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-063924736.html

I think it is only users in the US (some mention of Canada).

Hope this helps some of you out.

This is why I cannot get the copy function to work on PB. I recently upgraded my Flash Player and now---well here is what I got from the PB support people. They are working on a fix but for now. It no workie.

----begin email reply

We are sorry that you are currently experiencing issues with the one-click
copy feature provided with your Photobucket account. The recent Version 10
release of the Adobe Flash Player introduced changes in that program to
prevent problems with potentially dangerous content being added to your
clipboard. Those changes interacted with the one-click copy feature provided
by Photobucket.

The Photobucket one-click copy functionality is not currently available from
computers and browsers that are using Adobe Flash Version 10. When you click
on a code, the code will be selected and high-lighted. You must use your
computer’s copy functionality to place the code into your clipboard.

---the rest was an explanation of how to copy and paste the link and then they suggested using Internet Explorer, which I HATE with a passion.

So if you have been having trouble with PB, that is why. PB sucks but hopefully they will fix it soon.

Cheers.

I have my computer back from the shop and it was wiped clean. You can try and locate these things on the your drive or you can start over. I have an external HD and it was all backed up so I had my tech guy wipe my lappy clean and that killed the sucker dead.

Good news is my computer is faster than it was before. I have not lost any data and I will be back to normal in a few days. The only thing I don't have is PSP 10 but I have that covered.

I have begun reloading things and will be working to setting things to rights here.

All systems go. Woo.

(Note--my friend, also a tech head said that one way to avoid infection is to set up a user account on your computer that does not have admin privs and use that to work on mainly. This way, viruses cannot download when you are using that account. I have set up a secondary account through Windows here and will be using that as my main user acct. I will log onto my admin acct to do maintenance etc. This does seem logical. That way...no accidental viral downloads. Just a tip I got as I was dealing with this.)