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wyrmrider
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 Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: Killer phrase will fill your PC with spam |
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Interweb's most dangerous words revealed
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31675
THERE IS ONE phrase which, if you type into any search engine will expose your PC to shed-loads of spam, according to a new report. |
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trickyricky
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I don't see how you can attract any spam by typing anything at all into a search engine. Unless your search is linked to your email address in some way, it's impossible.
Visiting those sites, however, and downloading their rubbish, or signing up for any newsletters will just be begging for trouble.
I'd have said that such a turn of phrase was merely alarmist nonsense but for the fact that the original report's author is Ben Edelman, who usually knows what he's talking about. |
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I don't see how you can attract any spam by typing anything at all into a search engine. Unless your search is linked to your email address in some way, it's impossible.
Visiting those sites, however, and downloading their rubbish, or signing up for any newsletters will just be begging for trouble.
I'd have said that such a turn of phrase was merely alarmist nonsense but for the fact that the original report's author is Ben Edelman, who usually knows what he's talking about. |
the news source is the inquirer - any of their headlines should be taken with a pinch of salt, shall we say. its quite likely that theyve just done a "hack job" of reporting the - er - report, however i havent read the full report on the site advisor site or ben's writeup yet so i couldnt say for sure. |
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wyrmrider
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: here's the link |
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http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/search_safety_may2006.html
The Safety of Internet Search Engines
This is a BIG report
actually I think that ANY press that prods is good
installed site advisor- firefox blocked- edit options
several prompts- did a really want to do this
Scotty is on patrol good doggie
had netcraft but it was not compatible with new version of Firefox |
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wyrmrider
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when I googled for siteadvisor.com there is also siteadvisor.net
which is...
http://www.noadware.net/?hop=infocusp
will try again after reboot and see what the real site advisor says
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wyrmrider
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well site advisor (siteadvisor.com) had no problems with siteadvisor.net
found no problems with noadware.net
found major problems with noadware.com
"When we tested this site we found links to bulletproofsoft.com, which our analysis found to be deceptive or fraudulent." |
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