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Submission + - Shady Porn Sites put "users" at risk. (bbc.co.uk)

AnonymousClown writes: Most of the ways porn site viewers are exploited is with redirecting traffic to boost numbers. On the other hand, if you have a vulnerable browser and OS combination, you could be asking for some serious trouble. From the article:

The researchers analysed the 269,000 websites hosted on the 35,000 domains to see which hosted malicious software. About 3.23% of these sites were booby-trapped with adware, spyware and viruses.


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