<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bfceb026-470e-42ba-b80b-e2b84eca6119/9C42EDF0-7081-46E1-9CCA-494894CC5A57/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><H1> Top 100 virus-infected sites revealed </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nzherald.co.nz/img/AF7E719A-E0A8-4E56-963B-ABA825146630" alt="Each of the top 100 'dirty' websites contain about 18,000 cyber nasties, says Symantec. Photo / AP" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>Simply visiting one of the "Top 100 Dirtiest" websites - without downloading or even clicking anything - could expose your computer to infection and put your personal information into the hands of criminals, anti-virus software company Norton Symantec says.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>The top 100 infected sites had on average 18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the sites had more than 20,000 threats.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>A staggering 75 per cent of websites on the list were found to be distributing "malware" for more than six months.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>Malware is malicious software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's consent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>Ms Connor said half of the websites on the list had adult content. Many have unprintable names indicating they contain hard core pornography.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>Norton have released a sample of the dirtiest websites:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10592227"><P>Others, not so easy to spot as criminals' lures, include sites about ice-skating, deer-hunting, catering and legal services.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C42EDF0-7081-46E1-9CCA-494894CC5A57/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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