Megaupload links slowing my computer down!

[winodano]

All files downloaded perfectly, resulting in eight hours of HOT HOT HOT entertainment with cute girls and a really funny pervert teacher. Thanks for a great post!

Senior Idol

P.S. I still get the "Unsafe Site" warning from Norton Security when I download anything from Megaupload (Akiba is safe, it's Megaupload which is supposed to be unsafe). I wonder if people with different security software are also getting warnings about Megaupload. All of your files downloaded with no problem, but a Megaupload file from another poster attacked my computer and caused me to do an emergency shutdown. I'm going to try to contact Megaupload, since this problem has never occurred before yesterday.

MOD's,

Has anybody else mentioned this yet? At first you hear music & then your computer slows down. So far it doesn't seem dangerous, but it does slow down my computer to the point that I've had to manually shut down my computer even with McAfee, Google, Windows "Pop-up" blocker on & Windows Defender (which I think is pretty useless anyhow), AND it still happens.

I've sent them an email about this matter; so, I'm hoping they will respond to this complaint this time. MU isn't very good at responding to complaints.

Maybe... we all should start using Media Fire instead; it's free & the DL are the same speeds as RS or MU without a membership fee!

winodano

 

[shadeofgray]

Senior Idol also mentioned problems with megaupload links HERE. I'm using megaupload on almost daily basis and I haven't had any similar problem. Are you browsing with Internet Explorer maybe? IE is not really a synonym for safety.

On a side note, as far as mediafire is concerned, I've used it in the past (when it was all free) to share music and it was really great. Speeds were slower than megauploads but there wasn't any limitation in number of concurrent downloads so you could download more files at once. But since they have added paid membership, probably all the cool features have migrated from free to paid users. And I do remember there was a lot of problems with servers being down and files being temporarily unavailable (although megaupload seems to have the same problem lately).

Recently there was a post (HERE) that mediafire could be banning porn links. If that's true (highly unlikely), don't know what would they say about Idol videos, especially Junior. And I think they also don't allow password protected archives for free users so you couldn't ''hide'' the content.

 

[winodano]

Re: Media Fire -

I don't have a membership with them, but I do use a download manager to download from them with no problems & the speeds are close to paid MU downloads.

Also, I running a small test to see if they will delete my links, as of now they have been up for 2 days:

1 Porn post: http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152782

1 IV post: http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152779


Thanks!

 

[illuminatus3]

Mediafire retention has been very poor to me. Have you thought of using Multiupload, or zippyshare (no waiting time between downloads & unlimmited D/L for even free user, and better retention)?

Cheers.

 

[Hot_Shot]

No problem for me....

Try to scan your Pc DEEP ROOT ..

Regards

 

[gyoza ramen & a beer]

My experience with Megaupload is the same as winodano's. I would add that it seems to be a change within the last two to three months. Before that, Megaupload was for me far and away the fastest of the file-storage sites to d'l from.

Now, when I try to download a multi-part file from MU, the first link always initiates a chain of re-directs that lasts from 4-15 minutes, slowing the system to a crawl. Both my Norton & Webroot programs have pop-up blockers that produce audible sounds when blocking a site and when they hit one of these sites the sound through the speakers is like a castanet solo.

One answer--and the best and safest--is to turn off java but the problem with doing that is you then can't access the MU site or it won't display properly.

What seems weird (at least at my level of knowledge) is how after this happens with a first link, it's generally okay with the next several; that is, I click on the link and go straight to the captcha, enter it, wait 45s, click "regular download" and am good-to-go.

Then, the problems start all over again a few links later, then disappear for a few links, then reappear. It's as if these spammers have their re-direct scripts installed on every third or fourth link.

Hoping one of the mods/tech gurus can shed some additional light on this. Meantime, agree that mediafire or hotfile seem better choices for hosting.

 

[Rollyco]

If your Webroot/Norton are intercepting lots of pop-ups, that's a sign that external javascripts are probably getting through your filtering rules and eating up your browser's CPU time. As an experiment, disable Norton/Webroot, and load Megaupload in FireFox with the noscript add-on activated. After allowing javascript from Megaupload.com (only), the site will work and you will probably never see the high CPU issues again.

 

[gyoza ramen & a beer]

Thanks, Rollyco. Will try and get back to you.

What I still don't get and find possibly alarming is that, given a) Mega was always fine until a short period ago and b) there's been no changes made to the settings of my a-v and spyware programs, it implies these f-----s are getting more aggressive at circumventing the software we rely on for protection.

As I've posted in another thread, neither Norton nor Webroot, both of which were up-to-date, offered any protection against last year's XP2008Anitivirus malware.