Technology Sites "Riskier" Than Illegal Sites In 2013

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Here's a pretty scary statistic.

The “riskiest” pages to visit in 2013 were technology websites, according to data from users of Norton Web Safe, which monitors billions of traffic requests and millions of software downloads per day. Relying heavily on malware and fake anti-virus delivery, technology websites made up 9.9 percent of all infected websites, while business websites accounted for 6.7 percent, according to a Wednesday post.
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Yup, go to download.com and try to install something. The banner ads all look just like the legitimate download button, with the same big green "download" on the top and to the right.

Very easy for a typical tech-tarded L-user to click the wrong button and install malware.
 
The first thing that came to mind was sites like download.com that actually inject malware into the files they serve. How do they even get away with that shit.
 
yeah any time when a site sends you an exe file that basically is a "download tool" I skip everything associated from the site.
 
I was repeatedly hit with malware from tech sites through their ads. The ads were using a Flash exploit to install the malware if the mouse cursor as much as passed over the ad. That's why I started using an ad blocker at first, and later a Flash blocker. I still use the Flash blocker, and I advise everyone to use it. I've convinced my family to use it in either Chrome or Firefox. None of them use IE now.
 
Megalith said:
The first thing that came to mind was sites like download.com that actually inject malware into the files they serve. How do they even get away with that shit.
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My thought exactly. I've gotten more download managers, adware, and crapware there than anywhere else combined. Never use it now. And I guess technically all of the shit that comes with downloads is not considered 'malware' because it always comes with an uninstall utility. But god, how many headaches that site has caused me in the past.
 
sfsuphysics said:
yeah any time when a site sends you an exe file that basically is a "download tool" I skip everything associated from the site.
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I once tried Dell's download manager while downloading drivers for some old computer. The download manager immediately refused to run until I went to Microsoft and installed some special version of .NET. Of course that version of .Net had its own requirements (new version of windows installer I think) and I gave up at that point.
 
Megalith said:
The first thing that came to mind was sites like download.com that actually inject malware into the files they serve. How do they even get away with that shit.
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Or sites that used to be reputable, like SourceForge. I can't recall what I downloaded from there recently, but it came with a browser toolbar. I WTF'd, and looked it up. Apparently SourceForge is adding the toolbars themselves - It's not the software creator who's doing it.
 
From the original article that the posted article links to:

Top 10 "Riskiest" Sites For 2013:
1. Technology sites
2. Business sites
3. Hosting sites
4. Blogging sites
5. Illegal sites
6. Shopping sites
7. Entertainment sites
8. Automotive sites
9. Virtual Communities
10. Educational sites

Every now and then we have idiots with a puritanical bent posting here claiming that 90% of all malware infections come from porn sites. Porn didn't even make the list, unless they are part of the Entertainment category.
 
dgingeri said:
I was repeatedly hit with malware from tech sites through their ads. The ads were using a Flash exploit to install the malware if the mouse cursor as much as passed over the ad. That's why I started using an ad blocker at first, and later a Flash blocker. I still use the Flash blocker, and I advise everyone to use it. I've convinced my family to use it in either Chrome or Firefox. None of them use IE now.
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Lol, ie11 is more secure anyway, can't blame the browser for an insecure addon. Your solution should have been a blocker or uninstalling flash. Infection through ad banners is one of the most frequent ways people are hit.
 
So the solution is to completely disable Flash?

evilsofa said:
From the original article that the posted article links to:

Top 10 "Riskiest" Sites For 2013:
1. Technology sites
2. Business sites
3. Hosting sites
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Hosting sites are number three? That's almost unbelievable.
 
evilsofa said:
From the original article that the posted article links to:

Top 10 "Riskiest" Sites For 2013:
1. Technology sites
2. Business sites
3. Hosting sites
4. Blogging sites
5. Illegal sites
6. Shopping sites
7. Entertainment sites
8. Automotive sites
9. Virtual Communities
10. Educational sites

Every now and then we have idiots with a puritanical bent posting here claiming that 90% of all malware infections come from porn sites. Porn didn't even make the list, unless they are part of the Entertainment category.
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or it's a bad survey and they glossed over porn ;)
 
Ducman69 said:
Yup, go to download.com and try to install something. The banner ads all look just like the legitimate download button, with the same big green "download" on the top and to the right.

Very easy for a typical tech-tarded L-user to click the wrong button and install malware.
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Perhaps I simply fall into the tech-tarded L-user (L-user?), but this happened to me when trying to quickly do a full windows reinstall and wanted to get Winzip. Never went back again, while a bad ad served up by a 3rd party can happen, those guys are the ones presenting ads deceptively placed to look like actual search results.

the_servicer said:
Hosting sites are number three? That's almost unbelievable.
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Assuming they are including "parked" sites under the hosted site category?
 
Ducman69 said:
Yup, go to download.com and try to install something. The banner ads all look just like the legitimate download button, with the same big green "download" on the top and to the right.

Very easy for a typical tech-tarded L-user to click the wrong button and install malware.
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I hate those.

Minecraft mods and are always hosted at the most notorious deceptive ad filled sites ever.
 
Ducman69 said:
Yup, go to download.com and try to install something. The banner ads all look just like the legitimate download button, with the same big green "download" on the top and to the right.

Very easy for a typical tech-tarded L-user to click the wrong button and install malware.
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I still get fooled by that shit!
 
TwistedAegis said:
Perhaps I simply fall into the tech-tarded L-user (L-user?), but this happened to me when trying to quickly do a full windows reinstall and wanted to get Winzip. Never went back again, while a bad ad served up by a 3rd party can happen, those guys are the ones presenting ads deceptively placed to look like actual search results.
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It is not just you. At least twice in my memory I can recall being bit by this BS practice.
 
Ducman69 said:
Yup, go to download.com and try to install something. The banner ads all look just like the legitimate download button, with the same big green "download" on the top and to the right.

Very easy for a typical tech-tarded L-user to click the wrong button and install malware.
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For sites like this it usually takes me a minute or so to find the actual download button in the sea of malware download buttons. I can't believe legitimate sites have moved to this form of funding.
 
Speaking of BS ways to raise money, I used to pay for Gamespot back in the day so I didn't have to deal with the BS at File Planet back in the days where we had to download mods. Now Steam/Origin takes care of all of it.
 
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