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Old 08-27-2007, 07:59 AM
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I guess I am so computer illiterate I would not have the foggiest idea on how to access porn over the internet? I have NEVER seen anything promoting it so a person evidently must search for it thus indicating a deep problem fed by what they were searching for?
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I guess I am so computer illiterate I would not have the foggiest idea on how to access porn over the internet? I have NEVER seen anything promoting it so a person evidently must search for it thus indicating a deep problem fed by what they were searching for?
I've had a few inappropriate emails (but nothing for porn...usually "friend" search or drug advertisments)...and I've encountered surprising things in Google image searches...BUT...I NEVER have pop-ups. I'm of the educated opinion, that generally speaking, you get what you go looking for.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:15 AM
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I've had a few inappropriate emails (but nothing for porn...usually "friend" search or drug advertisments)...and I've encountered surprising things in Google image searches...BUT...I NEVER have pop-ups. I'm of the educated opinion, that generally speaking, you get what you go looking for.
I've never had pop-ups or porn spam email either, but have run into garbage a few times when doing google searches.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:20 AM
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I've had a few inappropriate emails (but nothing for porn...usually "friend" search or drug advertisments)...and I've encountered surprising things in Google image searches...BUT...I NEVER have pop-ups. I'm of the educated opinion, that generally speaking, you get what you go looking for.
I wish I could say that. I have had porn email, and I assure you I have NOT visited their sites. And on a very rare occurrence do a search that hit a porn site.

As to pop-ups, I don't recall getting any porn pop-ups.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:30 AM
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I wish I could say that. I have had porn email, and I assure you I have NOT visited their sites. And on a very rare occurrence do a search that hit a porn site.

As to pop-ups, I don't recall getting any porn pop-ups.
I regularly get porn email that goes into my junk mail. I can assure you that I have neither looked for porn nor gave any of these people my address. Actually, I started reporting it but heard that reporting it can actually have a boomerang effect of getting more, so I just ignore it. I wish someone would address these issues. My husband said that some are fighting for a dot xxx domain that pornographers would have to use and that would really be good. But the pornographers don't want it because they would have a harder time hooking people. This stuff ought to be illegal.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:27 AM
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I've had a few inappropriate emails (but nothing for porn...usually "friend" search or drug advertisments)...and I've encountered surprising things in Google image searches...BUT...I NEVER have pop-ups. I'm of the educated opinion, that generally speaking, you get what you go looking for.
When I was working at a certain library, a young boy who was innocently sitting at a computer had some porn pop up. This was one of his first times on the computer and he was not trying to access porn, but we had kids who came in regularly that did. We had security on these computers so that every time it was shut down, it cleared all history and downloads. Unfortunately, this poor kid got an eyeful. It does happen.
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I guess I am so computer illiterate I would not have the foggiest idea on how to access porn over the internet? I have NEVER seen anything promoting it so a person evidently must search for it thus indicating a deep problem fed by what they were searching for?
Not true... I've seen porn sites accidentally when I've misspelled a web sites address. My son saw one while searching for info on a kids TV show (he misspelled the name). Also, before "pop-up blockers," I've had porn ads pop up on my monitor.
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I guess I am so computer illiterate I would not have the foggiest idea on how to access porn over the internet? I have NEVER seen anything promoting it so a person evidently must search for it thus indicating a deep problem fed by what they were searching for?
Not necessarily. There are websites that might seem innocent in name only to find out they are covering for something more.......or is that the right way to word it?

For instance, there is a lady hunter website that LadyRev frequents. She once typed an S at the end of the word before the .com and got something totally different than she was expecting.

They were women hunters alright!

I once accidently happened upon a website that I thought was about the President. Wrong White House, apparently!
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I guess I am so computer illiterate I would not have the foggiest idea on how to access porn over the internet? I have NEVER seen anything promoting it so a person evidently must search for it thus indicating a deep problem fed by what they were searching for?
Luckily today there are lots of guards against it. Back "in the day" I was an admin on the mail server serving our State Legislature. Just walking into the control room of the data center was disgusting at times as some of the guys were frantically trying to capture email header info to chase down open relays and the such. For some reason the spammers really wanted to hit all of the .gov addresses with filth. I personally collected info that helped to put a guy in Florida behind bars- albeit for a short time, but I never heard from him again.

The IT industry has done a commendable job in cleaning up the mess from the way it used to be. There's obviously still a lot of work to be done.
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