Caf Rapidshare account?

Solius

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Do i remember a caf rapidshare account being mentioned before? Would it be possible to use it? Mine has run out and the fraud team cancelled my card because of some payments that weren't mine and now i have no wait for a new one so I can't extend it atm.
 
I might give out a couple of 1 year accounts for the caf in a couple of days.

5 people max for each account!
 
Would definitely appreciate one of those please VidaRed
 
Ooh, definitely joining the line for that.

very generous of you
 
I'll join the queue, much appreciated if you can pull some strings anyone ;)
 
A lot of love for the rapidshare on here and rightly so it's the best hosting site. If Vida is as good to you as he was to me, try jDownloader. It works really well with premium accounts. If you don't have one and can afford to leave your pc running during the day and overnight just queue your links up and it will download them unassisted. It is compatible with rapidshare's support for resumable downloads.

Works with all other file hosting sites to.
 
..what is the advantages of rapidshare over say torrents and utorrent?

If you use a trusted forum to find your links then the virus threat is very low. Plus you are maximising the throughput of your download bandwidth (if you have a premium account) rather than being restricted by somebody else's upstream. Once downloaded that's it, unlike torrents where you are constantly uploading to some other joe.
 
I'm probably completely wrong, but isn't the only way to get a virus from a torrent, is if you download software and run it? Surely if you downloaded only a video file you couldn't then get a virus from viewing it?
 
I'm probably completely wrong, but isn't the only way to get a virus from a torrent, is if you download software and run it? Surely if you downloaded only a video file you couldn't then get a virus from viewing it?

Yep, you can not get a virus from viewing a movie file. However, the movie file might have come in a zip or rar file that has a virus contained within it. But you can only activate those by opening them, and will usually be picked up by your anti-virus software upon extraction.

Self extracting zip executables are the most dangerous. Even if its only extracting 1 movie file the executable itself could have become infected and difficult to be detected by your anti-virus software. So double clicking on it will activate the virus.

Some attach a ".exe" at the end of movie files and windows default of hiding known extensions can easily fool a user in thinking its a movie, attracting a double click. Although doing so will usually popup a Windows warning that you are running an executable.

My point is, downloading files (movies or software) from trusted sources are less prone to viruses than torrents. It's very difficult to trace the source of a torrent to check it's reliability.
 
I don't have any anti-virus, but I usually only download videos and music, and un-click anything but the file itself. Never really thought about rar files having executables joined to them, may avoid them from now on.
 
If you don't have an ancient laptop/pc get an anti-virus software, you won't notice them running. Lots of free ones knocking about. Viruses are capable of some real nasty shit.