WARNING! Download links Zippyshare Malware

[Arsenalia]

Both Avira and Malwarebytes flag Zippyshare as malicious, so its not just my opinion.

Zippyshare is not malicious.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/1 ... malicious/

The post you link is over a year old. I run Avira Pro and Malwarebytes Premium and they both flag Zippyshare as malicious, which I thought was clear enough.

The site itself may well be blameless, but is clearly being targeted for drive by exploits.

[ScuL]

Well they are false positives, you can contact the support desks of those two anti-viral software companies and they will tell you the same

[Arsenalia]

Well they are false positives, you can contact the support desks of those two anti-viral software companies and they will tell you the same

Okay, I give up! My browser was hijacked by ransomeware - hardly a "false positve" by any definition.
And I still think advising people to turn off security software on this site is rather irresponsible.

[ScuL]

There is no way Zippyshare delivered ransomware

[Arsenalia]

There is no way Zippyshare delivered ransomware

Absolutely unbelievable.

[jdenm8]

Complain to Zippyshare and they'll blacklist the ad network serving that redirect.

We can't fix Zippyshare's ads. They've fixed this kind of thing before, but they can't do anything about it if people don't tell them.

[penguinaz]

Some ads look like download buttons but only download something you don't want. You can get rid of ads by having an adblocking software running on the zippyshare page

[Arsenalia]

Some ads look like download buttons but only download something you don't want. You can get rid of ads by having an adblocking software running on the zippyshare page

Sound advice penguinaz, and I do indeed have one.

[Metal121]

Heads up for the devs here.
and its active again, file 4 in download never happens, it try to start the ransomware, will do unless u have popup blocker on IE11.

[Vøytek]

No problem for me - I just click the link and it starts downloading, without any new page or anything being loaded.