Originally Posted by
Izagaia
ThemeXP is setup to "wrap" submitted .zip files authors' contribute. These wrapped files will be downloaded into your system as .exe files that will prompt you install third-party applications that deliver highly maliscious ad content. Some of these applications actually could be somewhat useful. However all of it is nothing more than an ad/spyware paradise.
Although ThemeXP itself, is not entirely heartless in considering the feeling of users, artists and their systems. They are owned by FileSubmitDotCom, who has bought them originally from TGT Soft a few years ago. FileSubmitDotCom requires that submissions be wrapped in return for the free hosting of artists creations. ThemeXP, though, being the nice guys they are, only wraps the first file you attempt to download. Each file downloaded thereafter, is done so as it's original .zip format. They do this by setting a cookie in your system after you download that first file.
So essentially, all you need do is to have cookies enabled for your web browser. Download any file you wish. It will do so in .exe format. This is a wrapped file. Just delete it. No one actually says you are required to run it. Now download that same file again. If your system is set correctly, the download will show as an unwrapped .zip file. Each file you download even after that should be in .zip format as well.
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