Downloading Porn Less Dangerous than Downloading Illegal Music

[anjandavid]

Downloading Porn Less Dangerous than Downloading Illegal Music :rolleyes:

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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[Toshiro]

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[anjandavid]

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[Hottwire]

This is true, but this only applies if you go online looking for site to give you the music files, which imo is asking for trouble. I'd much rather go with Torrents lol

[rysmen1]

I remember LimeWire being the next big thing after Napster was shut down. I gave up on it many years ago, when it went to a subscription service. It was around then that the recording industry started tracking people down through it, if memory serves. Can't imagine why anyone bothers with it these days. Again, some people are too stupid to have a computer.