Comments on: The Risk is There: Researchers Connect Pornography and Malware http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/ Making the Internet safer and faster Tue, 15 May 2012 00:05:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Shan http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-351587 Shan Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:58:01 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-351587 Thanks to opendns. I am a new home-internet owner, and I feel so worry that internet will attract my other brothers (and me too) to open such porn sites. Thanks to opendns. I am a new home-internet owner, and I feel so worry that internet will attract my other brothers (and me too) to open such porn sites.

]]> By: J http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-350200 J Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:17:34 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-350200 I've, ahem, known hackers, and plenty specifically use porn sites to hide exploit code because they're never caught, and the second you censor the site, people presume "moral majority" and "puritanical" motives and accuse you of hating the First Amendment. I’ve, ahem, known hackers, and plenty specifically use porn sites to hide exploit code because they’re never caught, and the second you censor the site, people presume “moral majority” and “puritanical” motives and accuse you of hating the First Amendment.

]]> By: Bhaskarjyoti Bhagowati http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349636 Bhaskarjyoti Bhagowati Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:19:37 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349636 Thanks to Opendns for it's content filtering. I've blocked the p2p file sharing to prevent users to view the torrents sites. But the users use to download the torrent file from outside of our organization and open it with utorrent or bit torrent. This doesnot prevent the downloads. How to prevent the users from downloading via torrents? Please advice. Thanks and Regards Thanks to Opendns for it’s content filtering. I’ve blocked the p2p file sharing to prevent users to view the torrents sites. But the users use to download the torrent file from outside of our organization and open it with utorrent or bit torrent. This doesnot prevent the downloads. How to prevent the users from downloading via torrents? Please advice.

Thanks and Regards

]]> By: Mike http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349572 Mike Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:31:07 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349572 I think you missed a very important part of the paper which might have lead to the sensationalist headline. I'll quote it for you here: "Whenever iframes were used as infection vectors, we extracted the hosting location of the injected code, finding the malicious code to be mostly (98.2%) not stored on the adult web sites themselves. We believe this is a clear indication that the web sites that distribute the malware were originally exploited themselves, and are not intentionally serving malware. This was also confirmed by results from Wepawet, which automatically attributed several exploits to the “LuckySploit” malware campaign." All that has been shown here is that adult sites are infected with malware by malicious third parties at the same rate as non-adult sites. I think you missed a very important part of the paper which might have lead to the sensationalist headline. I’ll quote it for you here:

“Whenever iframes were used as infection vectors, we extracted the hosting location of the injected code, finding the malicious code to be mostly (98.2%) not stored on the adult web sites themselves. We believe this is a clear indication that the web sites that distribute the malware were originally exploited themselves, and are not intentionally serving malware. This was also confirmed by results from Wepawet, which automatically attributed several exploits to
the “LuckySploit” malware campaign.”

All that has been shown here is that adult sites are infected with malware by malicious third parties at the same rate as non-adult sites.

]]> By: Geremia http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349552 Geremia Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:13:55 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/15/the-risk-is-there-researchers-connect-pornography-and-malware/#comment-349552 Wow, I never knew that "42.7% of all Internet users view" porn and that "the Internet porn industry yields more revenue [97 billion USD in 2006] than the top technology companies Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, and Apple combined." Keep up the good work, OpenDNS, for filtering out all this filth! Wow, I never knew that “42.7% of all Internet users view” porn and that “the Internet porn industry yields more revenue [97 billion USD in 2006] than the top technology companies Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, and Apple combined.”

Keep up the good work, OpenDNS, for filtering out all this filth!

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