100 web pages you should stay clear off - Steals passwords and contains around 18000 viruses each of them
100 web pages you should stay clear off
Steals passwords and contains around 18000 viruses each of them.
The internet is full of dangers and traps, so think carefully before you click on anything on the web these days. These are not new words, but words already said over ten years ago, but are more than ever so true.
The internet is no longer something new and scary for most people, however it has become a space for the illegal activities to spread as knowledge has become a tool for the criminals.
As users have learned how to use internet over the last ten years and computer secturity has become more than just a word for most of the users, it has come to a stage where users needs to be educated in how to avoid viruses, worm infections, computer hackers, and ransom through the internet. Yes, the latter has become an activity picked up during the last few years, as computer hackers demands ransom for not publishing hi-jacked vacation pictures on the internet.
Despite a more knowledgeable user on the internet, there are lots of web pages a web user should avoid totally.
Symantec has made a list of the 100 most harmful web pages out there at the moment.
Each of these web pages contains in average around 18000 various viruses and other harmful software that will try to attack or use your computer in one way or another.
This despite the old advice of not pressing any suspicious buttons on the web pages. What most people do not know is that just by entering a web page you could already be in a position of downloading harmful software without your knowledge.
Such a program is installed on your machine without you have any idea this has happened, and it can begin to monitor your key strokes and begin its hunt for passwords and credit card information and so on.
About half of the web pages listed as most dirty on the Symantec list, contains pornography and has a domain name not worth mentioning in the daily speech.
The other half on the other hand is normal domain names and contains topics such as movies, skating, hunting and even legal advice services.
75 percent of these pages have been active and spread harmful and dangerous software for at least 6 months time now.
The web pages is set up to attack known errors and weaknesses in the various web browsers and operating systems on both PC and Mac.
These dangers are real and Symatec says they are not trying to scare people, but trying to tell them how to protect themselves from these threats found on the internet today.
An important trend in the development of viruses and other harmful software is that they try to seem harmless and legit on the internet for the normal users.
Many of the first and most known computer viruses and worms were made in the bedrooms or dorms, and their intention was to create attention towards the creator and see how much havoc it could create.
Professional criminals are standing behind most of the malicious software creation today and their motives are in general economic.
To make a virus today is not about becoming a front page story in the newspapers but to make as much money as possible, and preferable without anyone knowing about it before its too late. Attention is something these people do not want to attract to themselves.
Even if only one percent of the net users let themselves be tricked and give away credit card information it amounts to millions of dollars, and maybe even billions.
A complete list of web pages to stay away from is available on Symantecs web page.
You are warned to not go to these web pages.
17ebook.co
aladel.net
bpwhamburgorchardpark.org
clicnews.com
dfwdiesel.net
divineenterprises.net
fantasticfilms.ru
gardensrestaurantandcatering.com
ginedis.com
gncr.org
hdvideoforums.org
hihanin.com
kingfamilyphotoalbum.com
likaraoke.com
mactep.org
magic4you.nu
marbling.pe.kr
nacjalneg.info
pronline.ru
purplehoodie.com
qsng.cn
seksburada.net
sportsmansclub.net
stock888.cn
tathli.com
teamclouds.com
texaswhitetailfever.com
wadefamilytree.org
xnescat.info
yt118.com
He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.
