Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Filewhores

chemrox - 23-6-2016 at 11:41

4-shared is loaded with tracking software and PUP's that malwarebytes blocks for good reason. I'd like to suggest that as a matter of security and anonymity protection members not use these. I appreciate some bandwidth can get saved by using filewhores but at what cost? If you don't like someone fine! Don't help him with files in refs. But please don't add the frustration of uploading to insecure sites like filewhores where trackers and PUP's abound. 4-shared has caused us several virus attacks and this is a going problem. We're not all IT experts that can surf yahoo (for example) safely using Linux servers and proxies.

macckone - 23-6-2016 at 14:17

I don't care for 4shared but I haven't had any viruses from member content. And if you are allowing popups, you are certain to have issues.