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juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted February 05, 2013 05:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Stone age thinking because altho this makes sense, I was surprised by it.

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Despite the common belief that "sketchy" Internet sites are more likely to host malware than their mainstream counterparts, the reverse may be true.

Internet users are 21 times more likely to become infected by visiting a legitimate online shopping site than by visiting a site used for illegal file-sharing, according to Cisco's latest annual security report.

"Web malware encounters occur everywhere people visit on the Internet — including the most legitimate of websites that they visit frequently, even for business purposes," Mary Landesman, Cisco senior security researcher, said in the report.

http://news.yahoo.com/mainstream-websites-more-likely-harbor-malware-201142450.html

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Randall
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posted February 05, 2013 07:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
But not this one.

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juniperb
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posted February 06, 2013 08:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nope. Safe as a locked vault

But then again, we are not an online shopping site .

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