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Megaupload has released a toolbar for both Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. This toolbar allows a user to gain premium access for a short period of time every day between 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM Eastern time. A known hijacker, "Megaclick", is bundled with the toolbar.<ref>[http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/ |
Megaupload has released a toolbar for both Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. This toolbar allows a user to gain premium access for a short period of time every day between 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM Eastern time. A known hijacker, "Megaclick", is bundled with the toolbar.<ref>[http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/664750-webbrowser-hijack.html WebBrowser Hijack (664750) - Tech Support Guy Forums]</ref> The toolbar also claims to give double download points for every file that is uploaded with the toolbar, but this feature has never been proven. |
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===Mega Manager=== |
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| Type of business | Limited |
|---|---|
Type of site | one-click hosting website |
| Available in | 18 languages |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters |  Hong Kong |
| URL | www.megaupload.com |
| Launched | March 21, 2005 |
Megaupload is an international one-click hosting website driven by Megaupload Limited, Hong Kong, available in many languages.
Usage
The domain megaupload.com attracted at least 10 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.[1]
The basic service is available for free and allows users to upload files of up to 1024 MB. Free users cannot download files larger than 1 GB, however. Free registered users are offered 50 GB of total file storage. Premium users are offered 1 TB total file storage. After a successful file upload, the user is given a unique URL which allows others to download the file.
Any file uploaded anonymously will expire if there are no downloads for at least 21 days. For free registered accounts, the expiration period is at least 90 days of inactivity, which can be manually reset. Premium accounts have no expiration period as long as the user remains a premium member.
Users must fill a text-based CAPTCHA when downloading a file. Non-registered users await 45 seconds in the download queue (registered users still have to wait 25 seconds) and a certain amount of time between transfers after a certain amount of megabytes has been downloaded. Paying users get a premium account with a wider range of privileges.[2]
Note that even paying members do not get a direct hotlink for non-paying members to download. Non-members trying to download your uploaded file are forced to Megaupload's site and have to wait 45 seconds to initiate a download.
Megaupload also run MegaVideo, a video site for streaming flash videos, similar to YouTube.
MD5 Checks
MegaUpload employs MD5 to identify and avoid the storage of duplicated files. [3] A master server stores MD5 hashes along with their server numbers. When a file is uploaded through Mega Manager, a query to the master server with its hash is sent before any data. If a match is found, the file is not uploaded again. This was discovered by deliberately uploading two files with different content but colliding MD5 hashes. Only the file which was uploaded first remained in the server. Attempts to upload the second file failed because Megaupload regarded it as an existing file.
Internationalisation
The website is localised in 18 languages:
- Arabic
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Chinese (traditional and simplified)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Software
Megaupload Toolbar
Megaupload has released a toolbar for both Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. This toolbar allows a user to gain premium access for a short period of time every day between 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM Eastern time. A known hijacker, "Megaclick", is bundled with the toolbar.[4] The toolbar also claims to give double download points for every file that is uploaded with the toolbar, but this feature has never been proven.
Mega Manager
Megaupload also released its upload/download manager, Mega Manager [5], a download manager which features a link-checker for Megaupload links as well as options to manage uploaded files, and to access the online control box that is also on the Megaupload site. Mega Manager bears striking resemblances to Conceiva DownloadStudio v5, self-evident in its "Options..." dialog box and some other aspects of the program. Mega Manager allows to resume interrupted up- and downloads, which is especially important when transfering large files.
Criticism
Megaupload Toolbar is known to redirect users to a custom error page when a 404 error occurs in the user's browser as well as contain a spyware named Alexa. [6] The custom pages, can, however, be disabled.
The toolbar also displays a different new tab splash screen.