Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday."Drive-by attacks" in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious code continue to be a bane, the US-based anti-virus vendor Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report.Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of "threats" that those featuring adult content, according to Symantec.
Another reason to stay away from religion!
Seriously, the reason, according to Symantec, is that it's the minor sites put up by churches and religious groups hoping to take advantage of the new medium represented by the smartphone craze, who don't have the money or the expertise to keep their sites safe and clean. The major religious sites appear to be safe, as their owners have the money to hire professionals to take proper care and both scrub them clean and put up proper firewalls for protection.
As always, caveat emptor! Let the buyer beware! Practice safe computing!
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