mrprez8 says:

Yes, these sites often attempt to create “drive-by-downloads”. In other words, they download files to your computer without you knowing. UNLESS you have good virus, spyware and firewall protection. This will stop it cold.

go to [http://www.download.com/ ]: download, install and update the following:

-AVG Free Edition OR Avast! Free Edition antivirus
– These programs are astoundingly better than Norton anti-virus but they’re free to use and are easy to adjust to your personal settings.
-Spyware Terminator (Comes with Real-Time Shield) AND SpywareBlaster AND Ad-Aware (optional)
– The real-time shield asks you wether certain processes get access to your computer or not. (If it looks suspicious, don’t allow it obviously.) SpywareBlaster keeps your computer from downloading tracking cookies from or viewing a banned list of websites that give spyware to your computer. (11140 items in database last time I checked, I think)
-ZoneAlarm Free or Comodo Free Firewall
-Firewalls keep out intrusions from Hackers and keep trojans and other malware from accessing the internet even if they do manage to get onto your computer. This keeps any virus or trojan from downloading even more files from the internet or adware from accessing your web browser.
[The above ONLY if your computer doesn't already have an anti-virus, multiple anti-spyware programs, and a firewall.]

For heavy-duty jobs (Like AntiVirus Pro 2009 or Similar Trojans):
[http://www.download.com/ ]

-SUPERAnti-spyware
-Great program with deep files scanning that does an extremely good job of detecting those System32 files on your Windows OS.
-Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware
-Basically the same thing as SUPER, but works in a slightly different way. I would recommend this over SUPER, however.

tempo1 says:

Nonsense.

Only about 2% of all porn sites contain malicious code that will attempt to compromise your computer according to a recent Google study. This is not that much greater then the internet as a whole.

A website (any one) usually will attempt to compromise (infect) a computer by one of two means.

A. By exploiting vulnerabilities (defects) in Windows,Internet Explorer,or other installed software such as Flash and QuickTunes. without any user intervention. This is called a “drive-by download”

B. By tricking the visitor into downloading some virus or other malware. Often a site will claim that a “codec” or an Active-X control is needed to make that site work correctly. If the visitor agrees to download and install (big mistake), he will actually be downloading a trojan or another type of malware.

A computer that is 100% patched and updated with all critical updates from Windows Update, will be pretty much immune from A.

And good old-fashioned common sense will prevent B. Never download and install ANY software from ANY website unless you know exactly what it is and know 100% that it is safe.

So as long as your Windows is fully patched and updated, you use a good (not AVG) and currently updated anti-virus and don’t download or install anything, visiting porn sites is reasonably safe.

So Enjoy yourself!

Mr.Quix says:

Porn sights are full of booby traps some porn sights can re-direct you to malicious pages that have dropper virus on them that will infect you instantly if you have no antivirus protection. Malicious porn sights have been known to use pop-ups to extort money from perusers of free porn and many also sell the personal information of their clientele.

That’s what happens when you deal with shady characters and give them your personal information or credit card numbers you get burned.