All the uploaders here use cuty io this made me hesitate to download any novels here again, especially this news about auto download shit.
Is it safe to download the uploaded new novels here? Any solutions?@Ozmadeus99 - Not all the uploaders use Cuty. Just checked one of traitorAIZEN's most recent uploads and navigated to the files and there were no Cuty links involved. Think it's mainly, or maybe only Animestuff who uses Cuty.

I wouldn't use Cuty links myself, just not worth the risk. But the last ones I checked you can get to the novel file if you are very careful, know exactly what you are doing, AND what Cuty are doing in terms of trying to confuse and mislead you with their pop-ups and tab switching. As their script intentionally switches your browser tab to the newly popped-up tab, and that tab will then have a link to MediaFire or Mega etc to intentionally trick you into thinking it directs to the download page for the novel, but it's not. And that is the malicious file Kureha nd KiRA are talking about.

But there's anothor malicious file as well which I mention above, and which automatically downloads to your downloads folder while you're navigating. So you need to keep your downloads folder open and constantly check it for any new exe files being downloaded. They seem to be named OperaInstall.exe or ChromeIntall.exe and the like to trick you into thinking they're legit browser installation files. As like I wrote above, I couldn't find any way of stopping this from happening. You might be able to do something in your browser security settings that prevents all file downloads, and then once you reach the actual file, bookmark the page and then re-enable file downloading. But it's still just another pain in the ass, and even as someone very experienced in navigating ad sites, I felt on edge about the risk of the navigation managing to somehow trigger the launch of one of those .exe it was downloading.

In my experience, once an ad site goes down the malicious file route like Cuty has, they only ever get worse, so the risk of using Cuty links today might be far greater than it was yesterday. Like I said, I just don't think it's worth the risk. They're probably close to going out of buisness to have gone down this route, as no ad site that does this lasts for very long.

In the 2 most recent reports, the cuty redirects kureha to linkvertise and then to google drive...
Didn't try to auto download any exe, tested on Edge with Origin.

Just checked some Cuty links and they didn't automatically download any .exe files this time. But not sure if that's due to Cuty removing that issue, or if the time of day is a factor. And browser/country. I didn't get directed to any fake Queble download pages this time either, which was happpening every time yesterday. But I was still directed to a malicious Mega file, although you'd have to be on total autopilot to download it with that file name.

Those malicious .exe files in the image were the ones that were getting automatically downloaded yesterday, and some were still in my recycle bin.