Webster

while you can never say something will never happen, i have never heard of anyone getting a virus from the links here at subsim. people here are adults who act responsably and dont get off by screwing up other peoples computers.

even if a virus would somehow accidentally get into a mod download it would be quickly replaced with a non infected version as soon as it is found. people here can be trusted and mods that are posted here are clean and virus free. if some immature person came here and started posting mods with viruses it would destroy the whole spirit of this community so that person, once identified and found guilty, will be dealt with quickly and in a timely manner.

you say clicking on this thread gave you the virus but AFAIK that is not how it works. you have to click on a exe file to download or activate a virus so if it showed up by you clicking on this thread then it was already on your computer and was only "triggered" by a link you clicked on or it may have been triggered by a set time that had nothing to do with this thread or anything you were doing at the time.

i recently had found a virus on my fathers computer that only showed up when he opened an old game. the minute he clicked on the game the virus was triggered and it started doing its thing and he hadnt downloaded anything in 6 months so keep in mind many viruses hide out in other applications and wait till you open it to be triggered. in my fathers case he opened a porn video 6 months ago and it installed the sleeper virus in a game folder it picked at random from his files. it remained undetected because it was still zipped untill the exe file triggered it to open. the game was installed from the original cd disk so i know it didnt have a virus in it before he downloaded porn.