Porno, Situsnya jadi Sumber Virus Komputer via Iklan
Top Porn Sites Pose Growing Malware Risk or `Malvertising`
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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BERSELANCAR di situs porno populer meningkatkan risiko penggunanya untuk mendapatkan virus komputer. Iklan yang ditayangkan dalam situs telah diunggah perangkat lunak berbahaya tanpa sepengetahuan pengguna.
Penelitian Conrad Longmore menemukan dua situs porno populer memiliki risiko terbesar dalam menyebarkan virus komputer. Dia mengatakan pengguna Windows mendapat risiko terbesar dari penyebaran virus komputer tersebut.
Namun, risiko bagi pengguna perangkat mobile juga mulai meningkat. Situs porno dinilai tidak menjadi rumah bagi malware. Namun, iklan yang terpasang di situs tersebut merupakan sumber masalah.
"Kita bisa menyebut iklan itu sebagai iklan bervirus," ujar Conrad dilansir BBC.
Salah satu situs porno yang bertengger di nomor 46 situs populer Alexa, memiliki 1.067 iklan bervirus dari 20.986 halaman yang disaring selama 90 hari.
Berdasarkan statistik Alexa, rata-rata pengguna situs tersebut membuka 10,3 halaman, yang berarti risiko mendapatkan iklan bervirus mencapai 42 persen. Situs porno lainnya ditemukan iklan berbahaya 12,7 persen dari halaman yang ada.
BROWSING some of the internet´s most popular pornography websites is increasingly putting visitors at risk, research has found. Advertisements displayed by the sites, which are visited by millions every day, were found to be installing harmful files without users´ knowledge.
Researcher Conrad Longmore found that two popular sites - xhamster and pornhub - posed the greatest risk. He said it should be easier for users to report malicious advertising.
He said it was primarily Windows users at risk, but that criminals were increasingly turning their attentions to mobile devices.
While none of the porn sites observed hosted any malware themselves, it was the embedded advertisements within their pages that created problems for users.
"We call these malicious advertisements ´malvertising´," explained Mr Longmore.
The data showed that xhamster - listed by monitoring firm Alexa as the 46th most popular site on the internet - had malvertising on 1,067 out of 20,986 pages (5%) screened in the past 90 days.
According to Alexa´s statistics, the average user of xhamster would look at 10.3 individual pages - meaning a potential 42% risk of stumbling across harmful adverts in each viewing session. Another site, pornhub, was found to have dangerous advertising on 12.7% of its pages.
