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- blueskydiver76, on 10/12/2007, -40/+128i can't believe that http://update.microsoft.com/ didn't crack the top 10.
- macaddct1984, on 10/12/2007, -16/+96In soviet .ru, accounts ban you!
- tjr7n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60They had to attend a lemonparty.
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -15/+50No digg because research was conducted by Mcafee.
- Scheissenegger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34actually, http://www.google.com is the most dangerous site: it's the door leading to all those spyware and virus supported sites (search for "cracks" and you'll see what I mean...)
- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31link to the actual study:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/map_malweb_mar2007.html - AdebisiTheGamer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21People on the internet have no street smarts.
People on the internet will never gain street smarts because everytime they get infected they blame hackers instead of their own inability to spend an hour of their life learning a few safe surfing habits and installing a proper anti-malware and data backup regimen.
I fix computers for a living, and 80 percent of my residential repair time is spent removing malware, because Joe Sixpack bought some antivirus and felt he could now surf anywhere he wants, download anything he wants, install anything he wants, with total impunity.
When I offer to spend an extra 30 minutes with Joe Sixpack to teach them some safe surfing habits and to set up a proper anti-malware system, Joe Sixpack always declines because the extra 25 bucks that would cost him is simply to much to spend on prevention. I guess Joe Sixpack would rather pay me for virus removals instead of prevention.
The truly sad thing, when I post on my business website about the real danger level of malware, I get emails accusing me of being alarmist to drum up business. How is telling people how to prevent infection an attempt to drum up business? I make my money from infected customers, not non-infected ones. - fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16If Google is aware a site is harmful they take you to a special page cautioning you about it, and you have to actually cut & paste the url from that page into your address bar to proceed.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@98ACURA (#6107150)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7934
GM script for nested comments, reply link with each comment, quote link for each comment. It's wonderful.
And that number is the comment number from the comment replied to. - 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@nougat
Whats up with the numbers in all your replies to people? i.e.
@name (#123456)
? - orangery, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14This is *****. I'm from Bulgaria and I'm telling you it's such a pain in the ass to register .bg ccTLD that people prefer .com's, net's etc. If you want to register a .bg domain you have to register a whole firm which IS complicated here and takes a lot of time. Not to mention it costs like 100$/year and 50$ to register a .bg domain. You seriously think scammers will pay such a price and go through such a bureaucracy just so they can host some malicious site instead of registering a 7$/year .com domain? Dugg down not because it says my country sucks but because it's absurd. I've never stumbled upon a malicious .bg site in my life.
- Dracoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16I usually ban .ru email accounts from my sites.
- LaSepultura, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Where's TubGirl and Goatse?
- cordellray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Shouldn't Nigeria be on there of email phishing?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13[quote]In short, it's because people are just stupid.[/quote]
Coincidentally, the same reason Windows is so popular and George W. Bush was able to steal the presidency.
And Dick "Boss Hogg" Halliburton (AKA Dick "Al Capone" Cheney, AKA The Penguin) was able to steal $10 billion in taxes. - vault, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This should have been called, "The World's Most Dangerous TLD's" ...it's not about individual websites, it's about statistics of gTLD's and ccTLD's.
- gnalakalaciath5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6what, no links?
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@mancat
>>"your $25/hr charge really isn't anything to him. In fact you're charging well below the average hourly rate for that type of work, so you're a bargain."
He's charging $50/hour not $25. - notman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 Tokelau has failed at the internet
- dikjr78, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Good for you man, but most people don't know any better. By the way most people don't write in expletives for no reason, there are other words than ***** in the english language.
- addictedidol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3True that. And to tell the truth BG torrent sites are the safest places to download from.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Odd--they missed Michelle Malkin's site.
OHHH..you meant security dangers. Gotcha. - AdebisiTheGamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, I charge a little less then 50 bucks an hour for residential work. It is what the market in my small city will allow. I am actually 10 bucks more an hour then most of my competition working out of an equivalent size of shop. Geeksquad and Nerds on Site and the Computer Bug have come and gone here because nobody will pay their rates.
- anthonyj73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That was the ***** article I ever read, If I wanted filler I would go to Postal shop for foam popcorn at least its useful.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4RTFA, they DID mention .edu.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No, they get a break because of all the fun those Nigerian scammer photos provided.
E.g. http://www.419eater.com/html/trophy_room.htm - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If "Joe Sixpack" doesn't ask you for your prevention tips, he probably doesn't really care. He's got other things to worry about. If his ***** breaks again, your $25/hr charge really isn't anything to him. In fact you're charging well below the average hourly rate for that type of work, so you're a bargain.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What exactly is the problem? A fool and his money and all that, as far as I'm concerned, somebody with disregard for any machine (car/computer/whatever) repair deserves what they get.
And the more people that induce these kind of *****-ups on their machines, the more money people like myself will make :). - bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The best defense a Mac has is that it's POSIX-compliant, like UNIX and GNU/Linux and Solaris and... everything that isn't Windows. Most people don't run as administrator all the time, so if you get malware, YOU get it, not your entire computer system. POSIX systems are normally designed for multiple users with security in mind.
Windows is jumping on the bandwagon now with that UAC thing. I haven't been near a Vista machine yet to see it in action; I hear a lot of people turn it off (not a great idea), but at least MS is trying and has finally taken a clue.
I used to think getting a Mac wasn't a good idea, but they're user-friendly and they provide commercial support; my parents aught to get one. They're reinstalling XP this very moment due to a virus. - triscuitbiscuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Abadinalbany
Just so you know, I did read the article which if you do a search over the original article mentions not one thing about .edu. - ilgaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a person reporting spam via spamcop.net and now verifying suspected phishes at phishtank.com , if I told you I haven't seen a single Nigerian spammer/scammer using Nigerian ISP, would you believe?
Zero.
They never use their own ISPs since these guys are actual criminals actualy having police after them. - drafhk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buried. Nigeria should be dark red.
- pat7089, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also work in the computer repair business, and experience the same thing. People just don't, or won't, be smart when they venture onto the Internet. Spyware and virus removal takes up a lot of our time, and most of it could be avoided if Joe Six Pack would stop surfing for, and downloading, porn.
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No one likes four letter domains. Because of this, info tends to be cheaper, so it gets the spammers, phishers, etc.
- ilgaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.phishtank.com , go see yourself, verify and submit phishes.
I am sure I have seen more data than those researchers and know every kind of phishing trick on scene thanks to verifying suspected phishing sites :)
New fashion seems to be subdomains and short page addresses. I am afraid the MS-DNS bug could be already in action. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2675 - Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@bmartin
5 min with UAC in Vista RC2 and I was looking for a way to turn it off. In order to copy a mp3 from my external drive to my desktop I had to click through 3 allow or deny boxes only to be told that I didn't have permission to move the mp3 to my desktop. - brianez21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But they give out free dot tk domain names! What could be better than that? ;)
- JoeBaynham, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Get a mac?
- nayr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, those damn tokelauians....
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1THere was a messed up Russian site right here on Digg several months ago. It was that worldest biggest hole story. Everyone with IE (and the lamer AV/spyware programs) was getting infected, and no one with FIrefox was.
- donotdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2goatse.cx was #1 on my list.
- LilBoyLuver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nougat those numbers are So Underground.
- sadjoker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Buried for inaccurate. With those expensive .bg domains and the clean and nice ex BG torrent sites (now ex cuz the law kicked`em out of the country) ... i don`t know what is that guy talking about?
- RobN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Buried, because the information is so vague as to be useless.
- menneke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think your information is a wee-bit outdated. From the "Terms and conditions":
3. TYPES OF REGISTRANTS
3.1. Any private persons or legal entities with legal or commercial registration in the Republic of Bulgaria or EU member state, or holders of a constituent act issued by a Bulgarian State Authority; entities, established by virtue of an agreement between Bulgaria and other countries; companies and organizations, registered abroad, having a registered branch or commercial representative office in the Republic of Bulgaria.
3.2. Efficient persons, Bulgarian citizens, foreigners with the right for permanent residence on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria or citizens of EU member state.
3.3. Legal entities, registered abroad, having authorized a third entity to register a DOMAIN NAME. The authorized entity shall meet the criteria under 3.1. or 3.2.
There is no registration fee and the yearly support fees for domain names in top level zone .bg is 30.00 EUR. Yearly support fees for domain names in the second level zones is only 10.00 EUR. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@4ajax (#6106980)
You, sir, are a [CENSORED]. - protektor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know this is a bit off topic but the only domains I've had issues with people using fake credit card details to order my products (shareware stuff) from are russia and slovakia. Well, there and some .info/.biz's as well. Just ended up banning most of these people's countries & TLD's from the checkout's and probably solved. It's unfortunate that the problems caused by some need to affect the majority but every chargeback costs me the original + extra fees!
- michaellaney, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0Some interesting information in this article. Shows how you have to be careful where you download files from. Doesn't look like I will be going to russian sites any time soon.
- vannman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is kind of random. pretty much a common sense thing i think. i mean, if you want viruses and spyware on your pc then sure... be carless. whatever!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6What this "study" is trying to show you is that you NEED McAfee rubbish. You don't. You just need to run a proper operating system that doesn't allow these various malwares to have any effect. McAfee is a leaky sticking plaster on top of a fundamentally insecure and broken "operating system".
It takes a competent programmer a matter of minutes to build a totally "new" piece of malware once an attack vector has been discovered. There are LOTS of people targetting the slack-jawed Windows using fools. McAfee simply cannot prevent infections - their "definitions" are invariably a long way behind all the nasty crap out there.
Game Over, McAfee -
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