I was at a dinner party on Saturday night, and I got talking to one of the guys about porn. He started talking to me about how so many porn sites are installing things on surfers’ computers that do all kinds of malicious things. He said that so many of his friends come to him worried about this kind of thing. He speaks about this with such authority as if the whole adult online business is doing this, and he really believes what he says.
Now, none of my friends are doing this; and most of the sites I promote don’t even do pop-ups anymore.
So where is this kind of stuff going on? Is it mostly a phenomena in the straight side of the busines? Is it an Eastern European thing? Or is it a fallacy created by the mainstream tech world?
And how do we combat this perception amongst surfers that we’re all looking to use their computers to distribute virus and spam?
Well, I guess it depends on what kind of sites people visit
Let’s face it, no-body in their right mind who operates a paysite would do anything to harm their customers PC’s - they are the source of income!!! But yeah, you do hear people running in to problems on torrent sites… and for them, I have no sympathy whistle
the news always talks about porn sites being where the spyware is. in reality, i’ve gotten or caught far more spyware from mainstream sites i’ve found researching from google than from porn sites. and i’m not talking about torrent shit - i have and will never steal content or anything else, and would have nothing to do with such things.
on the other hand, i know dozens of webmasters whose sites were hacked because they had a keystroke logger they didn’t know about and the guys whose keystroke logger it was got the ftp info for their sites and inserted trojans into their pages. and i know some wordpress users who had the same thing happen.
[QUOTE=Adam Mason;26147]Well, I guess it depends on what kind of sites people visit
Let’s face it, no-body in their right mind who operates a paysite would do anything to harm their customers PC’s - they are the source of income!!! But yeah, you do hear people running in to problems on torrent sites… and for them, I have no sympathy whistle[/QUOTE]
I think you hit the nail on the head. Michael, maybe explain to your friends that webmasters have to make money somehow, either from a $30/mo payment for legit sites, or by installing spyware to steal and sell your private info on those dodgy sites.
Trolling around the net looking for so called free porn is a good way to pick up all those nasty things eventually…
I think the advice I would give to them is stop looking for free stuff, find a membership site that caters to their needs…
With my own personal sites the biggest problem I have is from .pl domains doing traffic trades I have only ever had one that was legit… and anything that even remotely resembles the keywords “Filmy Porno” I delete blacklist and ban them, spent far to long in the past giving the benefit of the doubt only to find I should have banned them in first place lol
A large problem for Joe public surfer I think is usually a chrome button saying “You need “whatever” codec installed to play this file” … Whilst I know what codecs I have and know that if the file was really what they said it was then I would be able to play it, Your average surfer does not know this and will download the so called needed codec that turns out to be a trojan / virus… seen this many times…
