Friday, May 4, 2012

Virus threat of religious pages was higher than that of porn

According to the company Symantec, the probability of infecting your computer malware on the site with a religious content is higher than when viewing pages with pornography. Placement of content potentially harmful to the user's computer is still globalnyo problem because the number of kinds of traps placed on different pages of hackers continues to grow regardless of the wishes of their owners. In this traditionally occupy the top rung in the Table of Ranks porn now conceded the palm portals religious or other ideological orientation. The probability of infection by computer virus when they visit about three times higher than in the resource content "for adults only." Last and not fall into the five, their risk was relatively low - only a tenth place. Symantec is a situation explains the fact that the owners of pornographic websites is extracted direct financial benefit from the placement of the pages on the Internet, so they are interested in the fact that users are safe. Also in 2011, continued growth in the number of threats to mobile devices. In this case the direction of their somewhat different from that demonstrate an attack on conventional PCs. 28% of them are aimed at collecting data, 25% for tracking users and 24% on the mandrel content. Traditional threats to occupy only 16% of the total, and another 7% - this malware alters the settings for the unit. Application and found pervasive QR-codes. They placed ads spam, and for Android-devices there is a risk of infection and virus software.

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