Flickr photos have viruses or scams?

Question

I went on flickr and saved some photos using the right click and save as button however, two of the photos showed up as a pixel on my desktop and when i tried opening them they were blank. the size was 1x1 but on the screen(the website) it was full sized around 300x400. When i tried saving it the name that they automatically put was "spaceball". Both pictures were from the same user too. Do these pictures have viruses or was this some sort of scam or something?

Answer 1

This is call the watermark which protects the picture from copy by other people. The picuture is edited by the software and encoded, any attempt to copy or printscreen will automatic end up a blank or other picture embeded such as "copyright protected" or other words depend on the user inputs. Its work as well as the video

Answer 2

There is a setting on Flickr that doesn't allow any downloading of your images. If it is on, when you try to open or download it, you will get spaceball.gif instead, it is just a blank image file. It is not dangerous or anything. Go to your account settings to turn it off.

Answer 3

If you download thru Yahoo! Mail as attachment then it will be scanned by its built-in Norton Anti-spyware before saved to your HDD,but if you directly download then you can scan thru your anti-virus/spyware suite before you open it.

Answer 4

dude i used flicker it never happend to me