Filefactory....

[GailFan]

Has anyone else been getting very low speeds on FileFactory lately? Averaging about 15 kb/s, or around 8 hours to download a 325 MB file.

[haVEFun here]

When I tried this no untick box was provided:

Originally Posted by buttsie

The file factory screens are the easiest by some margin unless you dont read

No deception except they opt you into using it if you dont untick the box
directly under the download button which appears after the countdown is over


Free user phase - click link/download button , countdown , untick box , select download

May have to do with:

- Using Internet Expl0r3r 7?

- where i am living?

So no downloading from filefactory for me ( only possible if i would download that .exe-program too)

regards, haVEFun here.

[trooper123]

Originally Posted by haVEFun here

When I tried this no untick box was provided:




May have to do with:

- Using Internet Expl0r3r 7?

- where i am living?

So no downloading from filefactory for me ( only possible if i would download that .exe-program too)

regards, haVEFun here.

Same here, so I installed Google Chrome and the tick box apeared!

[N-KB3]

I took the trouble to uncheck the box as suggested, but I still can't get anything but their damned .exe file to download.

Update: I tried the free registration, and while doing it got one of those "FBI Money-Pak" lockout hits! I cleaned that up, but I'm staying away from this site!

[bigbobnobody]

Originally Posted by N-KB3

I took the trouble to uncheck the box as suggested, but I still can't get anything but their damned .exe file to download.

Update: I tried the free registration, and while doing it got one of those "FBI Money-Pak" lockout hits! I cleaned that up, but I'm staying away from this site!

The "FBI moneypak" virus, is obtained from having downloaded freeware &
shareware, as is said on the Wiki security site here. Not from visiting a webpage,
or registering at a file host site. So you didn't pick up anything while registering
at FF. If......you downloaded something from Filefactory, that contained
this virus, then why on earth have you not reported the poster of this
file? I've personally downloaded the dl accelerator that one gets when not
checking the box, scanned it with 4 different virus and malware prevention
programs, and never found a thing, but that's besides the point because
you said that you picked up the moneypak virus just registering with them,
which according to sources can't be so.

[GailFan]

I kept fielding complaints from someone about my Depositfiles links, saying that they had to type in their cellphone number to make the download. I had no clue what they were talking about, I have never (and still have never) seen anything like that on Depositfiles. It took a series of screenshots from me to convince this person.

Exactly the same situation here, I've never seen FF try and download an .exe (I don't use Windows so if its an executable or a virus it makes no bones to me :| ).

So stunts like this are regionalised, not everybody get faced with them.

I don't know if FF are doing it themselves (unlikely) or a third party is somehow hi-jacking the link.

I would theorise that using a proxy would get around this.

[GailFan]

Originally Posted by beemerider500

The best way around these quirks with some of the file hosts is to use JDownloader. You don't see these options at all... in fact, (lately) File Factory doesn't even require a Captcha check. I just dump in the link and about a minute later it automatically starts... and the file comes in faster than most of the hosters.

I have one caveat about JDownloader... the number of times I've received complaints from JDownloader users about my links being dead just because JDownloader isn't working . And it is against VEF rules to cite a link as dead when it's working.

[Bruceov]

Even unticking the box I get the exe download. Why not delete all of the links that do not result in the desired download.

[GailFan]

Originally Posted by Bruceov

Even unticking the box I get the exe download. Why not delete all of the links that do not result in the desired download.

Did you read my post???????

[bigbobnobody]

I've not heard a single person that uses FireFox, say that they haven't
seen that opt out box on FF downloads. I know that I've seen it every
time I've gone to make a download as a free user. About 99% of the time
I use FireFox too, but while in the middle of typing this, I tried an FF link
with Internet Explorer, and sure enough, there that box was waiting to
be unchecked. Just to make sure that that accelerator wasn't downloaded
anyways, I went ahead and started the download as well, and what was
downloading was the file that I was after.......not the accelerator, or as
those that seem to want to make this sound worse than what it is, that
"EXE" file. It's a one time use so called download manager, that's really
an accelerator that doesn't work.It's a way for FF to pick up some extra
change, and nothing else. It sure as hell doesn't help you download any
faster as a free user, and if you do happen to use it, you'll use it only
once to download the file that you were wanting.

As Gailfan said, it may very well be a regional thing as to why some aren't
seeing the opt out box, as to that regards if you've made it to the download
page. My guess is that it's more to do with the disabling of scripts and such
in one's browsers if that box is invisible to you with either FireFox or I.E.,
and any similar problems with other browsers, simply being that that browser
is not compatible with Filefactory's website. Hard to say for sure on my
end, because I've seen that opt out box every time.