January 14, 2006
Why Windows Surfing is Dangerous to your PC's Health
Some enterprising guys download 140,000 websites to see what kind of spyware is out there. What they found was pretty horrid. This is why surfing with Internet Explorer on a Windows machine is tantamount to destroying your PC.
When we first started crawling the Web looking for bad downloads last year, we weren't sure what we'd find. Today, a million Web sites and 140,000 download tests later, I can say with confidence that there are some great programs to be downloaded out there. I can say with equal confidence that there's also plenty of train wrecks waiting to happen to your PC.
