Google bars empornium.us porn search
p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- “We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users,” says Godfather Google.
“This warning message (right) appears with search results we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.”
You don’t see any warnings when, thanks to Google, you’re pestered with crap ads you didn’t ask for and don’t want to see.
But that’s something else and in this instance, Do No Evil is discussing an online action with, as TorrentFreak, points out, special relevance to www.empornium.us.
Because when you google empornium.us, you see, “This site may harm your computer.”
“According to Google and Firefox, users accessing Empornium.us are exposed to four trojan horses and three exploits,” says TorrentFreak, going on »»»
The malware doesn’t appear to be hosted by the site itself, but it is coming from outside sources.
Empornium.us is probably the world’s largest adult-material tracker. Indeed, at one stage it had over a million members which could elevate it to the position of world’s biggest private tracker, for any material. The site found itself in controversy in 2006 when an Israeli advertising company took over the site and kicked out many of the admins. For its part, Targetpoint denied the allegations, claiming one of its associates simply brokered the sale to an unknown third-party.
So what about the alleged malware?
“Empornium Team contacted us, confirming that the malicious code has nothing to do with them and they are ‘taking action to shut down the infiltration & remove the code asap’,” says the story, adding.
“Their own tests so far show it is ‘exploiting a known & patched security hole in Acrobat’.”
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December 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
so post the exploit about acrobat and make that public not banning some site that also did not know what the exploits were
good one for google attempting to influence traffic
aren’t they for net neutrality
December 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
This made me turn off the Firefoxes automatic filter thingie…
December 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
The adobe acrobat exploit has been known about for a while. Just use Foxit reader and you will have neither that trouble, nor will you have your pdf reader asking you every few days to update so it can phone home.
As far as google and it’s ads? I don’t use them directly. I have in the past mentioned my strong dislike of advertising.
February 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Its feb. 2009 and Empornium is with a new TROJAN on their site!
It breaks my perv heart, but i’m leaving the site behind.
The adm of site should know better that they cant aloud this!!
By empornium, RIP.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
You can still access this site through internet explorer…
May 30th, 2009 at 2:45 am
When will the site come back up?