It is very unfortunate that many good things do not last forever. Someone saw that Papermau was a popular site and could be taken advantage of to generate "free" (at other people's expense) money and spoiled things for everyone who enjoyed it.
I will miss being able to visit every couple of days and find new and wonderful creations, especially the hard to find Japanese paper models, and to read the comments and learn a new Portuguese word or two.
I had my own virus scare recently and now when I cruise the internet on my Windows 7 computer I run the browser in Sandboxie (
https://www.sandboxie.com) and on my Win 10 computer, I use Portable Opera pasted into Windows Sandbox to explore the Internet. It adds extra steps to access the internet but I would rather take a few extra minutes at worst have an infected Sandbox, than risk losing the entire contents of my hard drives.
Anyway, goodbye, and thanks for all the links.