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July 5, 2006
The rise of the internet sure is changing things:
Paul Zanetti
Internet porn is everywhere. The Internet allows people to anonymously view imagery that would have required a trip to the seedy side of town, or to a foreign country, a few years ago. A recent Australian Institute survey showed that 84 percent of boys and 60 percent of girls aged 16 and 17 had been exposed to pornography on the Internet.
The solutions to the myriad problems of spam, viruses, phishing and spyware are too great for many. "Put a firewall on. Patch this, download that. These are foreign terms to most people. The fixes may be beyond the skill levels of most consumers.Thankfully, porn spam into my email is blocked by my ISP. This weblog, for instance, is inundated with porn spam disguised as health tablets to get past the porn filters. They are designed to be adverts or referrals on the billboards The spam is automatically sidetracked into junk and disappears after ten days or so. Spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. The spamsters are also trying to drive traffic to a growing number of sites featuring rape, bestiality and incest pornography. Most of the websites are hosted overseas.
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Ohhhhh...so that's why they spam. Thanks for the info!