do a google search for malware images .... it's not just photobucket, it's ANY server media archive service.
image linky is no different than photobucket in the archive service it provides.
so, it's not the archiver, it's the compromised media that's in question.
if YOUR images are malware free, and you store them with an archiver, should i worry about clicking on your images? see my point?
i have thousands of images stored on pb with no problems or issue with malware.