A dangerous place

I was wandering through the blog pages yesterday. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that came up on the screen. There may be a large market for Internet pornography, but in a blog space? A couple of the blogs automatically sent me to the associated sites.
Being an adult, and relatively mature, I was able to simply shake my head and navigate away from those sites.
What I could not escape was all of the ad ware that was hidden in those sites. I had to run two scans on my computer. A quick scan came up with over thirty items hidden in the bowels of my computer. Later that night, I ran a deep scan. It managed to find forty. I shudder to think of what these little buggers of a hackers dreams are doing to my processing ability. For that matter, what kind of data could be pulled from my computer before I find these things.
The Internet hasn't been a very safe place these days. If you don't have an antivirus program installed, for God's sake don't even think about connecting! There was a piece on the news one night about the consequences of not protecting your computer. If it becomes infected and passes enough viruses along, your ISP will disconnect you. then you will spend well over two hundred dollars getting the crap taken off of your hard drive.
The point though, is that it can be hard knowing which sites to trust. I promise that I will not run ads on this blog. I will not link you to anything that I have not personally used safely. File that away with the other promises that I've made when starting to blog. You have my hand on it.