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Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought
nk497 writes "Porn sites are five times as likely to host malware as previously thought, with 3.6% offering up a digital infection of some sort, according to a researchers who set up their very own adult sites for a new study. One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programs, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash, or simply free pornographic material to use. Because such programs don't check who they're doing business with, and sites use disguised links and other clandestine methods to drive people to different pages, it's easy for criminals to abuse the system to spread malware. Researcher Gilbert Wondracek said, 'They inadvertently have created an ecosystem that can easily be abused on a large scale by cyber criminals, and that's worrying.'"
But that's ok... only ethically bad people use pornography, right? Right?
What? You mean risks to one part of the internet make it less safe for the rest of us? Gasp!
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I'd better run a full scan just in case.
Not like I've been to as many porn sites as would be necessary to be statistically likely to have gotten infected. Several times over. Nosiree!
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according to a researchers who set up their very own adult sites for a new study.
Strictly for research purposes :)
Wow... what a shocker! Porn sites have lots of malware! Who woulda guessed?
Really... who on earth is actually surprised by this?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
And here I was thinking your "simple one-person solution" was to browse porn sites...
Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought
I'm pretty sure "thoughts" aren't subject to the same kinds of infections...
Yeah as long as you don't mount, you should be okay.
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Fortunately, slashdot users never run into that sort of "real life" problem.
Haha, you said but-related.
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Right but they also have boobies! Maybe but me, but everything is about risk versus reward. Malware, boobies, malware, boobies... hmmm.... Seems worth it to me.
Must be a genious. When I talk I'm having real trouble separating bold from italics, and she combines them without even trying :)
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Is there any kind of sex that is safe?
My dog humping your leg?
Anyway, here's a true story:
When I was self-employed, my dog, Jake, used to lay on the floor by the check-out counter.
One day while a guy was checking-out, Jake started licking his balls.
Seeing this, the guy commented, "Gee, I wish I could do that!"
I replied, "Go ahead--Jake won't mind.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
Clarification:
One day while a guy was checking-out, Jake started licking his (Jake's) balls.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
from tfa: "More than 90% of the 35,000 pornographic domains analysed in the study were free sites."
links, please.
Huh, good sexual advice on /., this must be a first in the 10 years I've been reading it...