Mediafire and Adfly---Safe or Not Safe?

"QueenofMyshuno;d-962371" wrote:
Is it safe to download stuff from mediafire and/or adfly? I've been avoiding it and only downloading things with simfileshare or googledrive because I wasn't sure. How safe or risky are these sites? (I never click on their ads.)

Those can be behind adfly too :D

"QueenofMyshuno;d-962371" wrote:
Is it safe to download stuff from mediafire and/or adfly? I've been avoiding it and only downloading things with simfileshare or googledrive because I wasn't sure. How safe or risky are these sites? (I never click on their ads.)

As long as it links directly to Mediafire it should be okay having an Ad Blocker just in cause. But I wouldn't trust any AdFly links no matter what or where they link to.

Adfly isn't only not trustworthy it's outright dangerous because it will infect your pc with dangerous malware if not careful.

Look at this post and video from a cc creator about it and you will understand.

https://renorasims.tumblr.com/post/186002664728/the-risks-of-adfly-shorte-etc#notes

Mediafire is fine for the most part. Sometimes it does has annoying pop up ads. But sometimes not. The good thing is that my internet security program is really good and can block anything that is deem quite harmful.

Doesn’t adfly count as behind a paywall? Former guru Kate said something along those lines, but it’d be nice if the current staff could comment on it.

I feel better with mediafire than Adfly.
I'd have to want it reaaaaly bad to bother with that.

Kate (previously SimGuruKate) said this on Twitter
"If you, as a CC consumer, really must have a piece of CC that someone has put behind an AdFly (or other ad shortner) link take EXTREME precautions to protect your computer. This post will help you find ad blockers that will help you to keep safe

She gives address of another Simmer for advice....
https://mystericsims.tumblr.com/post/172150586809 …."

Mediafire is fine, it's the adfly site you go through that is bad. I don't download anything that uses adfly anyway after my anti virus thankfully blocked a virus from there.

If you’re desperate enough, a combination of a good adblocker & scriptblocker can mitigate the AdFly risk enough that you’ll probably be safe.

"QueenMercy;c-17147904" wrote:
Doesn’t adfly count as behind a paywall? Former guru Kate said something along those lines, but it’d be nice if the current staff could comment on it.

No it doesn't as it's just some advert links you have to go pass to get to the free content.

"So_Money;c-17148000" wrote:
If you’re desperate enough, a combination of a good adblocker & scriptblocker can mitigate the AdFly risk enough that you’ll probably be safe.

Don't count on it AdFly can be as bad and in rare cases worse than 4Shared and Baidu and those 2 are already known as trojan, virus and worm hell.