Viruses from Mediafire?

[The Answer]

I've been noticing for the past few months strange pop ups that disappear as soon as they pop up after which my comp starts acting slow and such, several scans from malwarebytes has found a virus about 7/8 times which lower my performance. Has anybody else getting viruses/pop-ups from Mediafire?

[Orochi Gill]

Pop ups up the butt but nothing viral

[DNZRX768]

Hmm...

Mediafire's gone downhill from the first time I signed up.

First, pop-ups that bypasses adblock.

Now viruses?

Maybe it is time to switch over to a new file host.

[The Answer]

I've been thinking that new mega site or skydrive since both have never given me a problem at all but the Mediafire stuff is recent.

[Orochi Gill]

For some reason, Skydrive, Hotmail, and Amazon lag my internet really hard. Dunno why

[Sinnesloschen]

Lol Mega takes forever to download anything from.

[Big Dick]

What about Dropbox?

[Niitris]

I've never had an issue with Mediafire, but with all the pop-ups, it would be naive to think that it's the only parasites in MF.

4shared is a decent alternative from my experience, but you'd have to register.

[The Answer]

To add, I've noticed one ad in particular but it keeps xing out of itself before I can get a good look at it but it says something about my download being almost finished. Every time I've seen that ad my computer gets a Virus, another strange thing is when I right click the link to download the file Firefox blocks the pop ups from appearing.

[DNZRX768]

I've never had an issue with Mediafire, but with all the pop-ups, it would be naive to think that it's the only parasites in MF.

4shared is a decent alternative from my experience, but you'd have to register.

Fine with me.

I can afford to register, especially if I am going to use their service.

No pop-ups, right?

[Orochi Gill]

Lol Mega takes forever to download anything from.

I dunno, mega.co.nz's been fine for me so far.

[Cobra Caddie]

Just set up a system restore point before using mediafire, and then restore afterwards.

[Umezono]

Mega has exceedingly good dl times. However Mediafire is far and away the fastest for me.

Skydrive, DropBox, Zippyshare and 4shared are all good alternatives.

[Orochi Gill]

Just set up a system restore point before using mediafire, and then restore afterwards.

Maybe, but doing that for every mediafire link seems silly

4shared

That still require an account? I've been logged into a bugmenot account for a few months now and never logged out of it. Apparently it's still useable to others though since one day everything was just suddenly in Spanish.

[Niitris]

Fine with me.

I can afford to register, especially if I am going to use their service.

No pop-ups, right?

It's free (there is a premium option though), and pop-ups are minimal at best.

[Umezono]

@[user id=28336]orochi gill[/user]: I got through that 4shared account nonsense pretty quick simply by doing temporary links to my google account lol. If you have a youtube you can do it. Or just make a google acct in 5 seconds and use it for all the websites that allow you to do it. Not like I use it for anything else.

[Orochi Gill]

Huh, I didn't know it worked that way. Using that old bugmenot account seems to be the best way for me though

[Umezono]

yeah if it aint broke why fix it? all i know is social media account linking is prob the best innovation ever because it let me get to 4shared files at the speed of light

[Basara Bogard]

The problem with MediaFire is always uses a lot of ads and pop-ups in downloads, probably to finance the site, but about downloads is the best. I recommend you to use stuff like adblocker in your favourite browser and bye pop-ups.

Also, I don't have any problems with 4shared, I registered using my facebook account and I can download without a problem everytime I connect to my FB

[Watta]

There's also sendspace