Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites 62
adeelarshad82 writes "According to a June 2010 Nielsen NetView survey on Internet usage, online gaming has overtaken e-mail in terms of the total percentage of time Americans spend online. Only social networking scores higher. On average, online gaming now consumes a staggering 407 million hours of U.S. citizens' time per year. Unfortunately, Nielsen's not the only one that noticed this trend; cybercriminals have taken note as well and are taking advantage of this by infecting games sites—from legitimate forums and tutorial sites to shadier download sites—to attack the unwary. Fortunately though, Avast has published a list of worst gaming sites."
Worst gaming site list in case of slashdotting (Score:2, Funny)
Worst offenders, as of October 6, 2010:
Gamesfactoryinteractive.com
Games-digest.com
Mariogamesplay.com
Anywhere-games.com
Galacticflashgames.com
Towerofdefense.com
ea.com
Gambling? (Score:3, Funny)
Now, by gambling, do they mean e-trade and td-datek-ameritrade or whatever its called now?
Or checking out zillow zestimates and buying real estate, because real estate only goes up?
I believe second life got rid of all its casinos. Is second life still online?
Then theres the gamble of risking your reputation on online dating sites...
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Re:My solution (Score:3, Funny)
Oh that's right - I forgot. Knoppix runs on unicorn farts and zero point energy to make pictures on the screen. Never even touches the CPU. I should have mentioned that.
Thanks for the reminder.