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Posted by: Michel Merlin (Thursday 4 November 2004, 2:51 PM)

No need to visit porn to get infected. ZDNet is misleading when making people think they are at no risk as long as they don't visit porn sites.

Whatever you visit (or don't), the spammers (and other malevolent people) will always get you anyway if you are in their target list - and they won't if you are not, whatever and how much you can visit porn or financial sites or anything else.

So, be warned: spam (as well as financial thefts and any other malevolent actions) don't depend on your behavior on the net - they actually depend on your race or political orientation. And those actions will always be hidden behind benign pretexts (as visiting porn sites, or eBay, or else, or even without any pretext if they don't find one).

I know repeating this is utterly dangerous - and will be denigrated first. But if taking no risk, we are buying short term limited relief at the expense of sure troubles for everyone some time later.

Paris, Thu 4 Nov 2004 15:51:50 +0100