I think South park did a whole season about ads recently? We can't hide from ads and their viruses. Every mugen downloader downloads at their own risk. The fact is virus and malware are in all these free web hosting/file hosting links. The industry generally refers to it as a “PUP,” or potentially unwanted program. Linking to mugen content is the lifeblood of warehousing take that away and you hurt our free trade.ĤShared it's technically not a virus, but it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as rootkit capabilities to hook deep into the operating system, browser hijacking, and in general just interfering with the user experience. The downloads themselves are still free and should not be discouraged for collection because of a supposed malware scare. These places shouldn't be punished and defamed like this because of financial issues. Not every mugen forum/webpage can afford to be ad free like this place. Ads are the unfortunate price for free hosting, but luckily you can skip ads and have virus protection to. I hate adfly/ads in general as much as the next guy but I wouldn't exclude MMV or Mugen Archive links because of it. We can't be encouraging users not to download from here or there because that just hurts mugen in the end, especially warehousing. We have a right Damn-It!, to keep free mugen content free for all. As it is, it's hard to share anywhere else without getting the mugen police hassling us over paid hosting going to waste because of warehousing. We need to support each other in these terrible ad filled difficulties. I hope you'll retract this decision if at all possible in the future for the sake of warehouses everywhere. It's one thing to make backup links from other hosting services but to boot out mugen archive links, a fellow warehouse, is not sitting well with me. Not to mention losing out on all that unique and exclusive content that's hard to find anywhere else. You're asking too much here to omit mugen archive all together and if these links are dangerous then how is this decision of downloading the content from mugen archive and then re-uploading it somewhere else solving the problem? :P Wouldn't that be exposing users to the supposed malware? At the very least in the collections there should be a warning and nothing more about a potential malware risk. Once a user appears at mugen archive then it's on them whether they want to continue onward to download or not according to the service provider's wishes. I don't think the mugen archive links should be removed, that's really unfair, it's not like the links to that place are hazardous to users. In that case remove all mugen links everywhere. I thought downloading anything off the internet was a security risk :P We thank you for your understanding in this matter. We urge anyone who manages our collection threads to please replace any of the affected download links with safer alternative download links. Thus, until further notice, links download pages at Mugen Archive are no longer permitted on Mugen Free For All, effective inmmediately. After discussion with the other staff, we decided that the best course of action would be to disallow links to the aforementioned website. We at Mugen Free For All do not wish to expose our users to these same dangerous security vulnerabilities. While many people have tried to address these concerns to the owner of Mugen Archive, it has become evident that they have decided to willingly dismiss or flat out ignore these concerns. As I'm sure many of you are aware, Adfly has gained a reputation, both within the Mugen community and from reputable sources in the anti-malware communities, for exposing visitors to various forms of dangerous malware through ads displayed on their site. The issue, in particular, stems from their choice of site revenue through Adfly. As I'm sure many of you are aware, there has been some controversy lately among various Mugen communities regarding Mugen Archive.
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