Science provides the answer to porn sites
Science provides the answer to porn sites
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Derek Smith

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49,597 posts

276 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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In order to limit your chances of 'catching' malware you would want to frequent those sites whick give the lowest likelihood of infection. Thankfully science, or at least the New Scientist gives us the answer:

Blogs: 19.8% risk of infection,

Business: 10%

Education/reference: 6.9%,

Technology; 6.9%,

Automotive: 3.8%,

Pornography: 2.4%

anonymous-user

82 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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Is that "chance of malware per single visit"??

I.e. porn is safer per visit because there are approx 4x as many sites as for technology?

And that means that every 5th Blog you visit you could catch a virus? (although frankly, not going to 5 blogs is also sensible because the average human being simply can't cope with that much wingeing and whineing about pointless cr*p....... ;-)

Simpo Two

92,579 posts

293 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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On reflection, PH has a forum for everything except pornography...

Marf

22,907 posts

269 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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Simpo Two said:
On reflection, PH has a forum for everything except pornography...
Surprising given the site is full of w-nkers.

Simpo Two

92,579 posts

293 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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Oddly self-deprecating there Marf.

Marf

22,907 posts

269 months

Thursday 3rd January 2013
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wink

otolith

68,189 posts

232 months

Friday 4th January 2013
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I would guess the issue is the vulnerability of the software and the quality of the server management. Lots of hobby sites running blogging software.