Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Revised Transition Paragraph

Pop ups began as a way to present random types of information from a webpage without you controlling it. The idea of pop ups used in a normal fashion stated in an article written on Ivertech, “There are "innocent" pop-ups with the sole intention of getting you to a website to sell a product” (Bigham 1). They first may seem like a good idea, but encrypted inside each of these tiny boxes could be thousands of viruses or even spyware waiting to attack your computer. With each website visited, thousands of pops ups can show up on an unprotected or even a mildly protected computer is under complete attack at all times. Although these attacks may not be visible to the naked eye, the damage they can cause is indescribable to non experienced computer users. The main remark that can be made against pop ups comes straight from the hidden dangers that strike when unsuspecting users visit various sites. As an avid user of the internet I believe that we need to take a stand against these types of things, and not allow it to control our electronic lives.

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