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5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the conservative-estimates dept.

OnFour writes "The MIT-backed startup behind SiteAdvisor has slapped a red "X" warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic and warned that there are roughly one billion monthly visits to Web pages that aren't safe for surfing. About 2 percent of all Web traffic was given the "yellow" caution rating." A more general SiteAdvisor blog entry overview was covered earlier on Slashdot.

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  1. Ack, worst link ever to click by Mr+Krinkle · · Score: 4, Funny

    "roughly one billion monthly visits to Web pages "
    OK, and the "one billion monthly visits" is clickable?
    Dear god does anyone else think that is the epitomy of where you could actually post tubgirl or worse and have it not only be on topic, but insightful? :(
    ermm
    crap, I think I just justified tubgirl as insightful or interesting.
    I quit.
    (and no, there are NO LINKS in this comment, if for no other reason than I might end up drunk and click on one of them)

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    1. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click by M4N14C · · Score: 3, Funny

      http://www.tubgirl.com/

    2. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click by dorkygeek · · Score: 3, Funny
      http://goatse.ca/

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    3. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click by dtfinch · · Score: 5, Funny

      Looks like it's safe. According to siteadvisor:
      http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tubgirl.com

      tubgirl.com
      [Green]

      We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.

    4. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click by FyRE666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sorry, but CherryCake.org is the new hotness when it comes to unsafe sites...

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    5. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click by jtcm · · Score: 3, Funny
      Looks like it's safe. According to siteadvisor:
      http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tubgirl.com
      tubgirl.com [Green]

      Not only that, SiteAdvisor (trial version!) is clearly aware that tubgirl.com links/redirects to domains including "sexmoviesonpod.com" and "naughtynati.com" (as seen in the helpful graphic).

      So...I'm sold. Where do I sign up?

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  2. 5% not safe by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Funny

    and 50% of web surfing is not safe for work.

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  3. so now we'll see by sulli · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Safe 95% Of All Web Sites" logos on people's homepages?

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  4. Obvious solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Set the evil bit on such traffic, so that it may be filtered out via firewalls.

  5. Re:site blocking predicted by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    You fucker! From your idea was born that which is so evil, the demons of hell (Blocked: Occult) tremble; so soulless that Paris Hilton(Blocked: Entertainment) seems a better use of oxygen. So cruel and unforgiving that John McCain(Blocked: Politics) would speak out agaisnt it!

    Fellow Slashdotters! May God(Blocked: Traditional Religions) have mercy on his soul! We have found he who has spawned the unholy beast that is Websense(Access Granted)!

  6. Never say web surfing is safe. by devjj · · Score: 2, Funny

    The last thing we need is people thinking they've got the odds on their side.

  7. no way... by Bombula · · Score: 2, Funny

    5 percent? No way. Porn accounts for way more than 5 percent of internet traffic...

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  8. In other news... by d.corri · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The MIT-backed startup behind SiteAdvisor has slapped a red "X" warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic"
    In other news, MADP* slapped a red "XXX" warning label on approximately 50 percent of all Web traffic.

    *Mothers Against Downloading Pr0n
  9. Re:Use a condom... by advocate_one · · Score: 2, Funny

    like this???

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  10. Yeah, I've heard of those web sights. by Ivan+Matveitch · · Score: 2, Funny
    I once knew this guy who went to this one sight on the interscope or whatever its called and what do you know but a big fat dwarf came out of his cdrom drive and kicked him in the nuts! Theres another sight where an elf drives to his chateau and slaps you with shoes its really something you should see it some time. (BTW elf has hideous crooked nose you know I saw his face for real.)

    Anyway you have to be careful when you surf the intrawebs now so serious. latezzz

  11. Re:A tad misleading, but SiteAdvisor is still grea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why use the 'Foe' option when you can use SiteAdvisor?

    I have a brother who has 2 foes between the ages of 12 and 15. Those foes married his last computer, unwittingly installing all sorts of nonsense when they downloaded games and graphics. That was on a Windows 98 machine which, as hard as I tried, simply could not secure or revive from all of the trojan horses and malware that I had infected it with.

    So, install the SiteAdvisor plug-in for Firefox which is absolutely brilliant for users like my brother. Hell, I've burnt out cars just for the novelty of it. The "Red X/Green Check" thing really turns novices more skeptical.

  12. Re:Ack, worst link ever to click, commie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why don't we then just cut out the middle man and classify every site as red?!??

    Is that you, Joseph McCarthy?