BBC News - Top porn sites 'pose growing malware risk' to users
Would like to draw the community's attention to this story, just in case there are any <cough> users of some such sites as these..
Apparently the risk is not from the sites themselves, but iframe-based and other adverts on the site provided by un-verified third parties.
But the reality is that these are hugely popular sites with many of them in the top 100 most popular sites globally. Some of them pull in more traffic than the BBC
(is that because most BBC content is w*nk ? )
I strongly recommend a piece of software called Sandboxie that I discovered a few weeks ago. With it when you run a browser any code run or downloaded by a web page is held in a sandboxed location outside of the normal OS locations. This means that when you finish browsing and empty the sandbox, all traces of any changes made by the page, including any viruses or malware, are erased.
What I do is load up the sites that I used regularly, logging on so that cookies are saved, in an ordinary browser. Then all subsequent browsing is done by the browser in Sandboxie, and it picks up these cookies (so you don't have to log on again) and keeps your machine 100% safe from any sites visited. And it does not slow down the browser at all.
Anyone else use this, or an equivalent?
Would like to draw the community's attention to this story, just in case there are any <cough> users of some such sites as these..
Apparently the risk is not from the sites themselves, but iframe-based and other adverts on the site provided by un-verified third parties.
But the reality is that these are hugely popular sites with many of them in the top 100 most popular sites globally. Some of them pull in more traffic than the BBC
(is that because most BBC content is w*nk ? )
I strongly recommend a piece of software called Sandboxie that I discovered a few weeks ago. With it when you run a browser any code run or downloaded by a web page is held in a sandboxed location outside of the normal OS locations. This means that when you finish browsing and empty the sandbox, all traces of any changes made by the page, including any viruses or malware, are erased.
What I do is load up the sites that I used regularly, logging on so that cookies are saved, in an ordinary browser. Then all subsequent browsing is done by the browser in Sandboxie, and it picks up these cookies (so you don't have to log on again) and keeps your machine 100% safe from any sites visited. And it does not slow down the browser at all.
Anyone else use this, or an equivalent?
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