Religious websites are three times riskier than porn sites for malware

Religious and ideological web pages are more dangerous than pornographic sites with regard to malware infection according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report (PDF) from Symantec. In fact, pages...

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OK - as an agnostic, that just cracks me the hell up!

god bless my anti-virus

Well, there was a study regarding intelligence and being religious...

..done by atheists. Guess what it revealed! I guess that all the great minds throughout history, the overwhelming majority of whom were people of faith, no longer meet the "objective" standard of "intelligence" - i.e. being an atheist. That aside, this shows that Symantec doesn't have a clue what their talking about. They don't even list <i>piracy</i> sites, which are far and away the #1 source for browser infections. I don't think I'll be buying the latest Norton products with this kind of "intelligence" being involved in its design.

Bravo!

Newton, Boyle, Edison, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Von Braun, Mendel, Pasteur, Einstein, Faraday, Joule, etc, etc..............all believed in God.

Also....on your other observation regarding Symantec. I completely agree.

I don't like all the pro rape in the bible.
http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm\
Let the debating begin!

Do you know what used to happen to you if you didn't believe in a god? You were killed, imprisoned, or tortured. I wonder why so many scholars in history were religious...

Interesting. I've known some porn sites that would deny access if the user's pc is infected lol

I'm glad that there are at least some sane people left here on the interwebs.

The most widely stated fallacy is that religious people don't seek to know the unexplainable. That when confronted with something unknown, they throw their hands in the air and say, "It's magicalness, herpa derp". Only those who are willingly obtuse state such idiocy. It's especially ridiculous when religious books, such as the Bible, repeatedly emphasize the importance of gaining knowledge and understanding. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Brown were all founded by Christians.

Shawn great info article!!! I'm actually kinda surprised tbh. I would have never thought hackers would go after religious sites. Makes a perverted kind of sense tho. I would hazard a guess that the hackers stopped using porn sites simply because the user base was getting wise.
I have a freind that has multiple anti-programs on his computer simply because he likes to go to porn sites. He even keeps backups on a spare external hard drive just in case. Since most religions frown on things like porn, the religious sites themselves being infected makes perfect sense lol.

See, it's like I've been saying all along, "God is within each and everyone of us"!! And now, he's inside your computer as well! It's probably a whole "Sodom and Gomorrah" cleansing paradigm, to wipe porn from the face of all our hard drives..... YaY....!

Actually I never even thought that......I have my mouse pad with a big ol' pentagram, and a bookmark folder the size of the King James Bible, to take me straight to hell! (Well, by "hell", I mean porn sites too numerous to mention).

I'm still not sure how some basic statistics has got everyone so riled up? (Not that a use Symantec products).

And you'd don't see where this thread is basically an open invitation to a religious argument?

First, many scientists of the past would face persecution if they didn't pronounce their faith.

Second, the human ego is massaged to no end by this, "and on the sixth day God created man is his own image".

In that context, it makes sense that people should seek out the wisdom and ways of their"creator", and attaching the term, "science" to their endeavors.. After all, we're cut from the same cloth as him.....Him,,,hmm...

IMHO, faith in God is, and always has been, the premiere path for the creation of some of the best music ever written.

Which brings me to this musing, "a nun a priest, and a rabbi, where arguing about the identity of God. It was a heated exchange. "God is a man! No, God is a woman! God is black! No, God is white"! Just then, a layman walked by, overhearing the conversation and said, "so it's true then, Michael Jackson is God"....???

I'm going to come down on the side of Chuck Darwin in this argument......

Why do I think it is hackers of rival religious groups?

Well, that's a silly thing to say. It's because "group A's" religion, is better than "group B's". You just ask anybody in group A", they'll tell you, "it's common knowledge". On the other hand, everybody in "group B" knows that God is on their side. Haven't we learned anything from the Crusades?

From the above thread, my problem has never been with god its always been the devotees.

Re-post due to quotes being messed up on my post...

Religious people are just as intelligent as the rest of us ... they are simply more superstitious and will remap/reinterpret reality to fit their beliefs. They will ignore anything they can't remap, believing they will be able to do so later. Atheists don't suffer from the same levels of superstition as our religious colleagues (we are all superstitious to some degree, its genetic), and to atheists religious people seem irrational ... atheists find it difficult to understand why they are unable to see through what seems so obvious to them. One thing I've learned is that you will NEVER convince a religious person that their beliefs are an illusion ... they need to reach that conclusion for themselves.If god exists, then why does he allow believers to become infected through visiting religious websites? Most of these people probably don't even use anti-virus as they have faith that god is looking after them...

When a religious person is 'talking' with god, what they are really doing is reinterpreting their subconscious as 'god'. If you ask them to ask 'god' a question that they themselves don't know the answer to, they always fail (you can't test god). When they do communicate with 'god' they always receive vague responses that send them on the (often) wrong path ... later they receive further 'communication', realise that they should change their path, then go on their merry way again. Go figure...

Incidentally, I have many friends who are religious ... to each, his own :=).