Downloading Porn Less Dangerous than Downloading Illegal Music
Downloading Porn Less Dangerous than Downloading Illegal Music
Posted 03/23/2010 at 5:44am
| by Paul Lilly
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One way to put your system at risk is to zip across seedier sides of the Web visiting a bunch of porn sites, but there's an bigger threat, according to McAfee. In a new study, the security firm says that downloading digital music is twice as dangerous as visiting triple-X sites.
McAfee claims just 9 percent of adult sites are riddled with malware, adware, and spam, compared to 19 percent of digital music sites. The reason? It's harder to make a buck selling music than it is peddling porn.
"The tier-one adult sites are doing phenomenally well as businesses, and because of that they very much have their house in order," McAfee senior product manager Mark Maxwell told The Los Angeles Times.
Stalking certain celebrities online is pretty risky too. According to McAfee, searching for Britney Spears turns up more dangerous sites than searching for Lindsay Lohan. And here's your quirky stat for the day: searching for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston is 36 percent more likely to bring up suspect sites than searching for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
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gruvsf
March 23, 2010 at 1:15pm
I have cleaned out at least half a dozen PCs in the past 4 months, and every single one of them was due to someone trying to download what they thought were MP3s to their computer. People are generally pretty dumb. Even after you tell them not to do something they will just go back and do it anyways. My advice is to just charge these idiots $100 per cleaning and don't even bother to tell them not to use Limewire. Free money for you!
jakthebomb
March 23, 2010 at 9:21am
I run a PC repair business, the number one cause of my customer's viruses is Limewire. Say you download a song called Empire State of Mind, the file extention would be masked to empirestateofmind.mp3 but once you double click the file to listen to it. the malware is launched and infects your computer. This is my favorite type of infection as no matter how many times i tell my customers DO NOT USE LimeWire, they do it anyway. I get alot of repeat customers. as for my Warrenty repairs, they donot cover Software nor Virus related repairs.
It isn't evil, it is just business.
jakthebomb
snapple00
March 23, 2010 at 8:53am
When has downloading porn ever been dangerous? Unless of course you have a weak heart, pregnant etc..
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