I'm not going to rib you for using IE as opposed to another browser. I'll just say that IE, period, strikes me as unsafe for browsing the porn side of the Internet.
[hide]Internet Explorer is very probably the most widely used web browser on the planet. Stowing fanboy arguments in defense of one browser or another, I'll simply point out that IE's gargantuan userbase originates primarily from the fact that Windows (as a single conglomeration of all its operating systems still in use) is the most widely-used OS in the domicile (meaning "at home") world. Most Windows owners (especially most Windows
home owners) either do not know about other web browsers or do know about but do not care to utilize them. My mother and sister, for the
longest time, referred to loading Internet Explorer up as "getting on the Internet" and exiting an IE session as "logging off." And while my sister has since learned the truth, and my mother understands that we're never offline except for when we shut down the PC and/or disconnect it from the modem, my mother
still refers to opening IE as "getting online" and expresses surprise every time she sees me open Firefox ... even though she must have seen me do it a dozen times already. ^^; My family members are all
very intelligent and highly-skilled people, so I know from first-hand experience that if
they can confuse a web browser for the WWW that so can billions of other sapient organisms. ;p
Because of this, spammers and malware programmers are more likely to design their code to exploit the way Internet Explorer, specifically, executes its commands vs. coding a more rigorous worm which can infect machines regardless of which browser is used. Time is money, and when 80%-odd of the planet uses IE, why spend 10 hours coding for 99% when you could spend 2 hours apiece coding 5 different bugs for 80% of the planet? Attacking 80% of the planet from five different directions = data r***. Attacking 99% from only one side = asking Norton, Microsoft,
et al to come up with a vaccine and thwart you.
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What does this (i.e. all that hidden text) mean? It means that when you visit porn sites with porn ads,
like Akiba-Online, you're just as likely to see a worm using IE as you are using Firefox or Opera. But you increase your chances of survival (so to speak) if you use another web browser because statistically there are very few Firefox-specific or Opera-specific viruses and there are many IE-specific bugs which exist alongside the any-browser bugs.
It's got nothing to do with blocking pop-ups. It's got nothing to do with security add-on this or security widget that. I'm simply pointing out that the numbers game doesn't favor your odds of browsing this site safely if you use IE, simply because the assholes who write these viruses and sell them to the even bigger assholes in the porn industry who then purchase them and hide them within their advertisements are intelligent enough and driven enough -- be it by their paycheck, by notoriety, or both -- to overcome any obstacles Microsoft and Mozilla and the others try to throw their way. It's an eternal cat-and-mouse game.
