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LloydGraham1

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  1. Thank you, Steven; I (and clearly many others) am relieved to hear it.
  2. Thanks for posting the evidence, Stephen. I don't dispute that Academia.edu staff are wholly unresponsive, as that has been my experience of them too. But it looks to me like most of this objectionable stuff just consists of uploaded documents with an obvious agenda, i.e. false advertising, a problem that is endemic to pretty much every hosting service where members are allowed to upload their own content. I'd make three comments: (1) Most users of the site are researchers providing and searching for academic/university-level content, and are thus fairly unlikely to fall for scams that are obviously out of place in such an environment. (2) The site's content is huge, and even a list as long as you present is only a minuscule proportion of the site's total content. (3) Academia.edu is *the* major networking platform for academics in the humanities, just as ResearchGate is the main platform for the scientific community. If visitors to the site are not exposing their computers to unseen attacks from malicious software, and if the only danger is of being duped by pages uploaded by scammers who are clearly out of place in the context of a university-level academic platform, I would politely suggest that it is not justified to have MB Anti-Malware block the whole platform as malicious. This is especially so given its established importance to the university sector and to humanities researchers in particular.
  3. MB Anti-Malware blocks Academia.edu with the report that it is a "malicious website." Like Kalvos, this site is too important to avoid -- I use it frequently in my work and need others to be able to use it too. Can you please indicate the nature of the threat(s) that it poses? I usually interpret "malicious" to mean virus-infected or booby-trapped with malware, yet you only mention "fraudulent content." What do you have in mind?
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