Do you avoid spyware? can you spot a spyware infested download?

[desteffy]

See what you get on this quiz:
(stolen from /.)
http://www.siteadvisor.com/quizzes/spyware_0306.html

I got 7/8

 

[BlueWeasel]

6/8 :|

 

[Kalvin00]

6 of 8.

 

[Brainonska511]

5 of 8, but I would never do any of that stuff anyway, so I have nothing to worry about.

 

[Rubycon]

Kind of ironic they mention the sites delivered spyware/adware through active-x yet all their screen shots show they are using firefox. :roll:

 

[desteffy]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
5 of 8, but I would never do any of that stuff anyway, so I have nothing to worry about.

come on.. you know you want the OMG SMILIES!!!

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: desteffy

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
5 of 8, but I would never do any of that stuff anyway, so I have nothing to worry about.

come on.. you know you want the OMG SMILIES!!!

Oh... the temptations of hundreds of smileys. Maybe I'll download comet cursor while I'm at it.

 

[Kelemvor]

5/8

But I would never use any of those sites so I guess I'm safe anyway.

 

[arcenite]

5 of 8... the P2P stuff got me, I knew kazaa but had never heard of blubster...

 

[Amplifier]

5/8 :|

Hold up while I X out this ad

 

[Brackis]

p2p f'ed me too.

What is that browser optimizing software that setups ideal settings for IE and Firefox?

 

[CrackRabbit]

That was just plain stupid, all of the sites listed are suspect enough to warrant not downloading from them.

 

[ViviTheMage]

YOU GOT 7 OF 8 QUESTIONS CORRECT

I definatly wasnt even trying..haha

 

[The Batt?sai]

i didn't look but i don't have any spyware
besides microsoft lol

 

[rhino56]

6-8 but its okay, they said i would have gotten 180 solutions which i know about so it would have been toast

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
5 of 8, but I would never do any of that stuff anyway, so I have nothing to worry about.

I got 6 of 8 but agian, QFT, I would never get any of that ****** anyways..

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: desteffy

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
5 of 8, but I would never do any of that stuff anyway, so I have nothing to worry about.

come on.. you know you want the OMG SMILIES!!!

Oh... the temptations of hundreds of smileys. Maybe I'll download comet cursor while I'm at it.

Don't forget weatherbug! C'mon, you know you need those weather updates at the bottom of your screen. Yea, I mean why get a weather application from weather.com when you can get it from another company like weatherbug.

 

[Avalon]

4 out of 8, but only because I over analyzed all the sites to see if any of the questions were tricky or there was hidden material...going through it on my first instinct without thinking about it, would have had 7/8.

 

[olds]

YOU GOT 8 OF 8 QUESTIONS CORRECT
Rating: Safety Guru

 

[adams]

3/8

 

[Schadenfroh]

I would not use any of them.

 

[Jeff7]

6/8 dammit.

Picked the wrong lyrics site, and I screwed up on Blubster.com. ActiveX concerns - psh, Firefox doesn't care.

And I've never even heard of BearShare or Blubster.

 

[Black88GTA]

6/8

Missed the lyrics site, and eMule.

 

[ATLien247]

5/8

I would have assumed all of them were infested.

 

[tfinch2]

I don't need to spot it. I don't download crap like screensavers or smileys.