Is Your Boyfriend Using Your Computer to Watch Online Porn And Exposing You to Malware?
More than likely you do not spend too much time pondering over why men are so addicted to porn especially since porn is so easily accessible over the Internet. It usually comes down to the fact that men are easy to visually stimulate and porn is unfortunately a quick and easy way to fulfill that infatuation. What does this little lesson in human biology have to do with malware on a computer? Have you ever wondered why your computer becomes infected with spyware, viruses, Trojans or other malware every time your boyfriend or his male friend(s) use your computer to 'view' pornographic material?
Did you know that about 12% of all websites on the Internet are porn sites? The creators of malware, usually clever hackers, and money hungry cybercrooks, are apt to target as many people as they can - mostly men - and what better way to do it than through porn sites? Pornographic content sites make up over a $13 billion a year industry, larger than the music and movie entertainment industries put together.
From racy photos of D-list female celebrities to the raunchiest stuff on the Internet, it is all a prime target for hackers to use them as a launching platform for spreading malware. According to Online MBA's statistics on Internet pornography released in early 2010, 70% of men between the ages of 18 and 24 visit porn sites in a typical month, which is one of the prime demographics for the victims of malware.
How Can You Get Malware When Visiting Online Porn Sites?
Initially, a porn site's main objective is to make money. When a legitimate porn website creator launches a website he/she does not have the intention to lace it with malware. However, hackers are always on the lookout for finding vulnerabilities within porn sites and the computers used to visit porn sites.
When a guy visits a porn site, the last thing on his mind is physically contracting some type of virus or disease, nevertheless, there is no exchange of bodily fluids from one person to another, most times. In a way, the same thing can be said for a computer. Men that pull up a porno site are only focused on just a couple objectives, to satisfy their addiction and not get caught. What happens is, when someone visits a porn site that has been infected with some type of malware, it gets the user to download their malicious file. In the case of a site flooded with an abundance of T&A it is an easy task, you would just offer them a 'Free Porn Video' to watch and if they want to see it bad enough they would be required to download a file. A man would, figuratively speaking, turn into a dog in a meat house. In many cases, this 'file' is a fake video codec that is laced with malware. Some hacked porn sites specifically target users utilizing the Internet Explorer web browser by having secret ActiveX downloads that sneak onto the computer.
Other instances where a computer is infected by visiting a porn site can be such simply loading manipulated JavaScript code that re-directs users to an enticing pop-up that initiates the download of malware when clicked on. The possibilities are virtually endless. Men, believe it or not, are more subjective to falling victim to these tricks. After-all, only 1 in 3 porn viewers are women. Women can sometimes be just as guilty but women always want to ask a bunch of questions or need some type of explanation or reasoning behind everything which may constitute the lower percentage of women into porn.
Let's face it guys; you can literally 'appease your T&A addiction' without spending a dime on the Internet. 'Free' is the in-thing when it comes to porn nowadays and there is a lot of free 'explicit' content on the net. A large portion of free porn content usually leads to malware.
For you guys out there, the next time that you indulge in extracurricular activities over the Internet that involves a large quantity of revealing flesh plastered all over your girlfriend's computer screen, make sure she has an updated anti-virus and/or anti-spyware program and be careful where you surf, what you download and what attachments in emails you open. Remember, 'protection' helps prevent the spread of diseases for you and the same goes for your partner's PC.