The virus issue... someone up in the thread wrote "We are on the internet a lot and should know how to protect ourselves" — well, see, the operative word is "should". A lot of people dont. Now imagine the uproar if someone puts in a link that goes to a site that has malware on it. You think folks arent going to blame Rosity for that? Dream on, folks. Of course they are: "You should have told us! You should have known!" That's happened before, so can you really blame them for wanting to err on the side of caution?

I think you are correct about very few things here, meaning that Renderosity as you say should be active in removing any links with virus, malware etc from their site when they find or notice them. But i think you are misunderstanding the effect of this rule and why your view can actually be harmful for you. If you think that this will improve your security when browsing Renderosity you are doing so under a false impression of security, which can be very dangerous, if you dont want to get a virus.

So I would strongly advise you and anyone else thinking this way to rethink it, if you want to avoid these things, because this rule will do nothing in preventing you from the risk of getting a virus/malware and so forth from a link!!

If you want to protect yourself against viruses you need a virus protection software. There are free and very good ones available on the internet.

AVG - www.avg.com

Avast - www.avast.com

If you prefer better protection you either buy a license from one of these or one of the other companies that develop software designed to remove and prevent viruses.

If a person want to spread virus here on Renderosity, simply telling them to not do it, will not prevent it. Such person will post a link regardless of what Renderosity think and if they don't remove it fast enough or even prevent people from posting links in the first place, someone might click it and risk getting a virus if you don't use some software to protect yourself.

Also remember that Renderosity is only removing links to people that create freebie items, so a person wanting to spread a virus can simply post the link with a different topic.

People creating viruses, malware etc. and spread them are not stupid people and they very well know how to use a computer, the internet, forums and ways to spread these thing. There is a reason why there are so many companies develop software to remove these things, if it were a matter of simply telling those making them not to, then all these companies would be out of business.

Besides Renderosity making this rule in the first place, which was a mistake overall. Im really worried to see anyone actually believing this will help protect them against these things, because that is a serious problem.

So again and i STRESS it, if you want to be protected against these things get some virus protection software and don't trust any links on the internet, just because someone say they believe they are save.