kalewa-a:

kiwisims4:

pooklet:

I just went to download some ts2 content hosted on Mediafire and had a completely terrifying experience where one of their evil fucking pop-up tabs.

It generated a warning dialogue claiming that I had spyware on my computer, which could not be closed. Then, a super loud robot voice started blaring through my speakers that my computer had spyware on it and I had to call a toll-free number to have it removed. Seriously, my speakers are at less than half volume and that was still so unbelievably loud. It kept repeating and I STILL couldn’t click away. I couldn’t close the tab, or chrome itself, I couldn’t alt+tab to any other program. The only thing that made it stop was bringing up the task manager and going through the dozen or so instances of chrome.exe under Processes and ending each one them until I finally ended the right one and killed the tab.

I have three different levels of adblocker on my browser and five different anti-malware programs that I run on the regular so it’s not like I’m cruising around on the internet unprotected against this sort of thing. Mediafire has always been a little bit sketchy but it seems like they cranked that shit up to eleven recently. I really don’t think it’s a safe site to keep using for file hosting, guys. :(

Hey guys so I’ll posting all new content on a new service , possibly onedrive , all old content will stay where it is on mediafire :)

I’ll be using only dropbox from now on guys. D:

Time to make a dropbox account, won’t be using mediafire again!

07.04.15  ∙  390  ∙  via ∙  src
  1. evolo84 reblogged this from blackswan-sims and added:
    I reblogged this before, but it bears repeating. There may not be much we can do about many older downloads, since the...
  2. gwanda-blitz said: Oh, so it’s from Mediafire indeed! I even reinstalled Windows because none of the antivirus/-malware/-rootkit/-adware softwares I had installed found anything malicious and none of the three different ad- and script-blockers I use were doing any good to block those tabs… >:(
  3. annaled reblogged this from dinuriel and added:
    I will have to remeber this and move my stuff sometime soon. Thanks for the heads up!
  4. dinuriel reblogged this from blackswan-sims and added:
    I’ve reblogged this before, but I’m reblogging it again. There is ZERO reason to still be using a site that has time and...
  5. blackswan-sims reblogged this from pooklet and added:
    ^This is why I’ve since moved all my older downloads to Sim File Share. Also, Adblock Plus doesn’t block their stupid...
  6. myporpoise reblogged this from pooklet and added:
    I’m having the same problem! I’m going to alert my favorite simblrs because this is super annoying.
  7. plumbots reblogged this from simdew
  8. simsvanilla reblogged this from basicpxls and added:
    Well I’m glad I seen this! Deleting my account before it shits on me (´・_・`)
  9. basicpxls reblogged this from pooklet and added:
    I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
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  12. erinmblair reblogged this from pooklet and added:
    I’ve been noticing that my ad blocker doesn’t actually block the ads, either.
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