Study: Blogs Contain Offensive Content and Viruses

Posted on April 26, 2007

A new study of blogs by a company named ScanSafe has issued a report called the Global Threat Report. The Global Threat Report has found that they contain both offensive content and trojan viruses. According to an article in Life Style Extra the study found that 80% of blogs contain adult language and/or porn.

Four in every five blogs on some of the most popular websites contain potentially offensive content, such as pornography or adult language, claims new research.
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Some of the most popular are shamelessly devoted to sex, such as the award-winning 'Belle de Jour, diary of a London call girl' and 'Girl with a one-track mind, diary of a sex fiend'.
Popular teen sites MySpace and YouTube are battling to remove porn from their sites, a problem that is made difficult because all of the content of these sites is made up of files that users have uploaded.

The study also found that 6% of blogs contain viruses and spyware.

Computer software firm ScanSafe, which commissioned the Global Threat Report, also found more than one in every 20 blogs (six per cent) contain potentially catastrophic computer viruses, spyware or other harmful programs that can steal private or confidential information.

What else would you expect to find in a "Global Threat Report" but porn, viruses and other nasties? There are certainly many blogs with offensive content but there are also many blogs with unoffensive content and even good, helpful and informative content. As for the dangerous viruses even AdWords has been found to have problems with those. You also have to wonder if splogs (fake blogs) were included in the study because they would most certainly increase the frequency of viruses found if they were included.