Saturday, March 24, 2012

Indecent proposals

CHANDIGARH: Imagine returning from a great trip abroad and uploading the fascinating photos of the trip online when a line pops up - \"Looking for a decent female friend?\" Or \"Lonely guys welcome to intimate chat\" while you are chatting with a friend on the latest office or campus gossip.



If you cursed but didn\'t know why this happened, you are one of those many online users, especially those visiting social networking sites, who are affected by \"pornbot\" - which has such lines interrupting your online sojourn, often with the intent to guide you to different sites.



Other ways of luring users put out lines like - \'Looking for fun at exotic locations?\', \"An excellent business opportunity is waiting for you\" or posts like \"I bet you cannot watch this video for more than 15 seconds\" or \"Hey, look what happened to me last night\" and \"I won free bucks by just clicking on the webpage, so I suggest you the same.\"



Though in most of the cases, sources of these pornbots and spams, which stealthily crawled into your profile, could not be traced but in some cases these are believed to be circulated by trained hackers, hired by professional companies.



\"Pornbots have make life difficult for the netizens, all across the world. We usually do not know their source and sometimes we also do not realize that they are continuously following us. Every other day, I have a new pornbot tweet in my tweeter account,\" said Rashmi Thakur, who works with a public relations company.



In many cases, pornbots are automatically originated planned programmes. These are designed so smartly that they easily pretend to be humans. Once, an individual starts chatting with them, there is a virus attack, harming the computer system and in some cases the profile is also suspended. Some companies are also creating pornbots to continuously follow their potential customers. Besides, Facebook spams are equally annoying for the users.



\"Once there was a porn spam posted on my Facebook profile. I clicked and it automatically got posted on the profile page of all members, who were there in my friend list. I got scores of calls from my friends and the situation was so embarrassing for me,\" said Mohnish Verma, a freelance writer, told TOI.



Suchita Ghai, a commerce student, said: \"It is not possible for members of social networking sites to ban spam or pornbot but the technical team of these sites can certainly ban them. Yes, there is a democracy but I really wonder that how these things can flourish in our society.\"


News From: http://www.7StarNews.com

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