Looking at cars on Ebay,comes up as dirty pictures

withywood

same here about a week ago while brother was looking for a cheap runner

cazmanian_minx

Sounds like you may have slightly mistyped a url and your browser's got something that diverted it somewhere else. I can thoroughly recommend Ewido if you want to give your machine a quick scan to be sure it's OK.

http://www.ewido.net/en/

Click on the orange Scan Now button on the left hand side. They've recently been bought by Grisoft, the people behind the AVG virus scanner, and it's one of the few anti-spyware programs that looks for root kits as well as actual spyware.

Caz

withywood

yes your right as i clicked on that item it then asked me to sign in, the url at top was this alksjhdlkasjdlsakjd.50megs.com, www in front of it so beware

shopaholicjules

Thanks for your replies, it's weird how some people get the pictures and some don't. It asked me to sign into Ebay with my screen flickering when I was already signed in as far as I can remember. I didn't look at the URL but hopefully it hasn't done anything, my computer seemed to slow down but I have scanned it for viruses and it hasn't come up with anything.

Happy to have brought some light humour now I know it hasn't infected anything, light browsing for a Friday evening.

Jules

rdwarr

I have seen this as well, so has my wife. The reason many of you haven't is that these auctions are only up for minutes before being taken down.
Here's how it works:

• Scammer posts auction for popular car (often Ford Focus) using a stolen account and a pornographic picture as a gallery item
• Shocked eBayer clicks on the auction to see what is going on
• JavaScript within the auction description redirects the user to a fake sign on screen
• As user is in shock they have often left their guard down and give away their account details

So, these auctions DO exist but never be tempted to click on one ot you may be in trouble. Plenty of other places to look at pictures like this

There is no virus or spyware involved here

idler_2

Another possibility is that the photo has been stolen from another, completed listing for the same car. If, as is likely with cars, the original seller hosted the photos on a site such as Photobucket, he/she can get his/her revenge by substituting other (pornographic?) photos for the car ones. The new ones will show up on the listing rather than the ones originally stolen, and the listing will be pulled.