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- digga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46Infections rising due to young-uns social interactions? Just like in real life!
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49Thats why youths should install FF like the rest of us.
And a spyware scanner doesnt hurt either these days. - TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38But how else will I get my free ringtones and show all those videos on my MySpace?
- feylanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36"Youths on MySpace and similar sites aren't cautious about surfing the Web"
Next on the 10 o clock news, water still appears to be slightly wet. - squeevey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Captain Obvious, you have a call on line one. Captain Obvious, call on line one.
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23They're there for social reasons, not geek ones. Of course they don't care.
- dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Why would ANYONE expect a MySpace user to know what spyware is?
- PumpkinEscobar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Leo LaPorte keeps saying that there's more money to be made in spyware than in writing a virus or trojan.
- ScrewedThePooch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Google "zango media player"
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20It looks like it was coded by a 10-year-old. It's not secure. It spreads spyware and is loaded with advertisements. People have a great reasons to dog on MySpace.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Nah man we are totally cauti... OMG, MY SKATEBOARD WENT IN THE BUSY INTERSECTION!! BRB
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18They probably think it was a special edition of Spy vs Spy.
- cblalock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Could this comment be more off-topic, biased or out and out ridiculous?
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15If we're searching for the "best and brightest" of our youth, I don't think Myspace is where we should be looking.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Damn promiscuous kids not taking protection! And what's all this about the internet? :D
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Your sacarasm meter needs to go back to the repair shop.
- MiDri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Oh man... market it as MyWare and you are set -- the apple version of spy ware could be called iWare... yes this is going to work perfectly! Synergistic energies culminate autonomously!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Cyber Darwinism anyone? Survival of the smartest.
- frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12How is this news?
Youths [[participating in any activity]] aren't cautious about [[much of anything]]. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Are the layouts made by myspace admins, or are they created by users?
I had an account for about three weeks. After a while, I got sick of trying to read text on picture backgrounds, having to listen to ***** music whenever a profile loaded, and seeing all the scene kids with ***** stupid hair trying to look cool.
What I hate most about myspace is it lets every idiot who can copy and paste add his own little place of ugliness to the internet. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow, that was random.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Ugh the layouts are so ugly, when I used Myspace (dark times) every one of my friends had eye bleeding layouts and it took forever to load even on a fast connection. Not only that people abused the bulletin system, I would get "meet up at movie theaters" and to read "Your mom will die at 12 am if you don't repost this in 10 seconds and send it to 5 of your friends." My friends still wonder why I left.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I don't belive that story
Send me a donation of £3.50 using a mastercard or visa and I will change my opinion. Until then I will sit here and not belive you. - iPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I don't know if you realize it... (You just called yourself stupid and exclaimed that you shouldn't be using a computer.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@ DarthTurducken
I'd say Nabokov is a perfect fit seeing as he wrote "Lolita" . . . actually, much of his literature deals with child molesting in a disturbingly familiar fashion -- so, well done! - mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I am a teenager. I am very smart about myspace, I think that it is best just to avoid that horrible place altogether. But, my other teen aged friends aren't as smart as me. If a pop up pops up(wow) offering a "free" ringtone, they go after like flys to animal droppings. It bugs me so bad to see them be so stupid! Why would some random company give them a free ringtone for no good reason? I have used that on some of my friends, and I have "converted" them to not clicking on those... but, when the pop up claims that they have been selected out of millions to get a free ipod, they always always click on it. One of my friends lost $6000 (yes, 3 zeros) because a pop up claimed he would get A free laptop if he would just pay the shipping and handling of $16 and they needed his credit card number. The scary part is, HE GAVE THEM HIS PARENTS CREDIT CARD NUMBER!
Scammers know that these kids are morons, and they prey on myspace to get their paycheck. And, it works. Just like I mentioned before, someone got $6000 for doing nothing except creating that pop up and typing "free laptop." These things are growing bigger and bigger in their numbers... why? BECAUSE IT WORKS. But anyway, this link, from what I have read, hits the nail on the head so to speak. Gets my Digg. - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Hopefully, eventually MySpace users will pick up enough spy/ad/malware to make it so painful to use the computer they will simply stop. It would be the best thing to happen to the internet since Google.
[Google is, basically, the internet equivalent of sliced bread.] - raj3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10They're not looking out for danger in quite the way that more skeptical adults do," he says. "Kids on MySpace and sites like it act as though they are in a safe youth-only environment, and as a result their behavior is less cautious, and that is something that is being preyed upon by all kinds of Internet villains. And we think spyware creators will be the most aggressive in exploiting that."
Ever seen one of those many anti-myspace media pieces? Concerned parent: "She thought it was 'her-space', none of us realized that anything bad could happen in 'her-space'"
Parents and children alike need to use more common sense when using the internet, plain and simple. - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No kidding. Like all the nation's teens are going to say "OH NOES, all our Tubes are belong to spyware, I'm staying off the Nets and reading Vladimir Nabokov instead!"
Okay, not sure why I chose Nabokov there, just sort of popped into my head. - areric, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Before someone beats me too it, FTFA - "We're finding that the social-networking sites like MySpace are turning out to be hotbeds for spyware," CEO Dave Moll says. "People are creating multiple profiles, and the links on their sites will take you to sites that will either download or drive-by download adware and spyware."
Regardless i still contend that the media LOVES to pick on myspace regardless of how negligent they have actually been. It also seems that myspace tends to always respond by trying to appease the critics but never gets credit.
I dont really like the site, but they get dogged on alot for no good reason. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Kids on MySpace are dumb. Surprised?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Simple, just use a virtual PC
Allows you to extract the ringtone or smiley and then destroy the machine :D
Worked for me for a while now. - robweber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10well it is well know fact that if you stick Myspace or Google in the title more people will read it (not just on Digg, but everywhere in general) since those are internet hot words. Nevermind the fact that when they refer to myspace in the article they are generalizing that the same kids who use myspace are the one who don't try to prevent spybots. myspace itself had nothing to do with anything.
- QuantumLo0p, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12My daughter and step son are typical youths when it comes to their surfing habits.
However, when she has to do on-line banking or anything requiring a secure connection she logs into my Powermac to do those things.
I find it interesting she doesn't totally trust her XP installation even though she keeps the OS, the anti-virus ware, the anti-spy ware and the firewall up to date. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Careful, Darth, or they might pretend to read so we'll think they're intellectuals.
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11 It's all the half naked Girls and EMO bands inviting them as freinds, beggin them to click on their webpage links to check them out...
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You use Opera don't you....stupid Digg, fix it for us Opera users.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You mean this
http://yoannlegoff.free.fr/dc/images/firefox-condom.jpg - whitecricket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7should tell kids to put on thier e-condoms before surfing the net.
- areric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5oh im not denying that almost every myspace profile is a picture perfect example of bad web design, but thats because those designs are created by users, not by the myspace people themselves.
I just think its unreasonable to blame myspace for things like "internet preditors". All it is is another care of the guy on top getting all the blame. - CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I completely agree with you. It's idiot adults as much as idiot kids. I'm 15. I bought my own computer about a year ago, if not a little less, and it's my little, virtually spyware-free(hey, stuff will get in sometimes, no matter how hard you try...), baby. I got it because, for one, the family computer had recently died for the 3rd or 4th time, and I was tired of that, and because I was tired of dealing with the mass of spyware on it. So, after reformatting that, I never went on it again.
Turns out, 2 months later, the thing was almost dead again. A couple of trojans, some happy little viruses, all that fun stuff. 2 MONTHS. I hadn't been on it, I have no siblings, the only ones on it are my parents. I didn't even bother to ask what they'd done, because it's easy enough to see they'd been doing the good old ad-fun crap. My mom is on it more, so I was more likely to blame it on her. The stupid thing is, this is the same person who tells me to "stay off social network sites" and "don't give away personal info", as though I randomly went around to sites where I give out my name, etc, without trusting anyone on it first. She's also the same person who recently sent me a link to "Names Database"...
Older people are just as likely to be vulnerable to the problems of the Internet as kids are. You are only safe on the Internet if you know what you're doing, and I mean REALLY know what you're doing. Norton won't save you from stupidity. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh no, its a missionary of Myspace promising us candies and declaring that there are no human sacrifices if we join him
- izzie2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Kudos for protecting your children,(like its a choice), but for the love of english reading graduates,please consider the spell check option.
- systmcrash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7People are asking why Myspace get crapped on a lot fo stuff they cant relly control.
Here's a good reason they decided to target the worst possible demographic you can find.
Think back to your early high school years where your hormones controlled your every action and your penis controlled your every toughts.
Now take a billion or so kids of the same age and give em a website to post willy nilly whatevwer they please.Throw in pedofile's whom you can bet your ass are out trolling those sites in full sick force and then ask yourself why is myspace getting crapped on.
Hmm i wonder maybe its because there not doing society any favors by congrating the biggest mass of hormone led group on the planet.
Anyways iv said it before and ill say it again aint no way in hell my kids are ever gonna be on my space its a catalog for pedofile,there biggest wet dream come through. - greymaxcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6... huh?
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Waaaaaaaait a second. Are these skeptical adults in the 18 to 25 range? I have a lot of trouble believing that adults older than that won't click the link to update their media players. They also tend to fall for the "hit the monkey and win an iPod" banners.
Have you -seen- oldish people try to use computers? Even ones who use them for work like accounting or writing barely seem to get by. - McNubbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This article is too true.
I've built and rebuilt my little cousin's machine twice now. He's an avid MySpace user and though everytime I build the machine I put spyware tools on for him to use and explain to him the importance of running them and of blocking popup using FFox, he still comes back 6 months later complaining of slowdown, sporadic shutdowns, whatever the case may be.
People often say how this generation is so advanced technically, but just because they use computers doesn't mean they know how to use them correctly. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that is awesome, I so have to bring that up in an everyday (for a computing student) conversation
- leohart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If only one of those villains would kindly put an end to this MySpace thing that I have heard about then life would be much better.
I wonder, on the other hand, how many myspace user would have the IQ to read digg or similar news site where comments/responses don't usually consist of "Yo, that's COOOOL"? - sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4myspace is just a fad. yes i have a myspace account, but i dont really use it.
myspace will slowly and slowly get smaller. people will forget about it.
youtube will be dead in less than a year. over 1 million bucks a month in bandwith! theres no way they can keep up with that. -
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