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but are the files checked for viruses? my father asked me and i said i honestly do not know

You told your dad about the site?

I download alot of stuff from here and never found anything in them.

Technically, one can use the information tags in MP3 files to create some sort of buffer overflow that could execute some malicious code - or so I heard. In my years of collecting music, I've never run into an infected music file. If you download some music file from here that turns out to be an EXE file and you run it, then you may shit your pants. But to be honest, I doubt anything here would be infected. We're such a small community and so tightly knit that virus attempts would be SO not worth it. So yeah, no need to be worried. Just keep your common sense on - best anti-virus ever.

The McD

i did not tell my dad he found out one day when he came here before it was private

mp3 files rarely contain viruses, they are more common in rar/zip files people put full albums in. Sometimes you can get media files that ask you to download a codec, if so it's probably fake and might be trying to get you to download a virus.

Never had any problems with Xylot concerning this.

TheMcD wrote:Technically, one can use the information tags in MP3 files to create some sort of buffer overflow that could execute some malicious code - or so I heard.

If thats true then i would think it would have been patched by now through windows updates

There shouldn't be any viruses.

No. There are no viruses in the MP3s from the main site. Trust me on that. 80% of them were uploaded by myself, and the others are uploaded by trusted admins that I or other trusted admins have picked to help out.

i scan the files i upload before i upload them