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Speaking as the operator of a similarly themed site, allowing drive-by downloads is a huge target for malware uploaders.

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So how do we solve this? By only allowing hotlinks on Images or similar?

That's precisely what I do. You probably also want to scan the files for viruses at the time of upload and at regular intervals. I use ClamAV and F-Prot.

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