Copied stories

[Elianna]

Those porn "blog" sites are mostly vehicles for malware or gateways to expensive porn sites. They steal Lit stories and scatter the text through the pages to try to keep search engines from ignoring them.

If you decide to check a place where a google search finds what you believe is your story on something with the word "blog" in the title/url anywhere, proceed with caution.

Make sure you have a robust set of anti-malware & antivirus programs up and running, use Firefox to view the pages ( About all I use FF for except to keep my other pen name logged in to Lit ) Make sure your flash and all other browser addons/plug-ins are up to date, and ditto for your OS.

Bump everything up to max security before you go, too. That should disable all the scripting languages and help keep things from launching.

Can you tell I had to spend quite some time helping a reader clean out his computer when he checked one of these sites, trying to do me a favor and report someone posting my stuff elsewhere?

YIKES! That's scary. Remind me not to get TOO zealous about finding copycats.

 

[gauchecritic]

control + alt + delete is very useful.

I only use Firerfox so it may be not as useful on M$

[plus I have a pc firewall and a router firewall too]

 

[Zeb_Carter]

control + alt + delete is very useful.

I only use Firerfox so it may be not as useful on M$

[plus I have a pc firewall and a router firewall too]

That doesn't mean a webpage if written correctly couldn't download a bunch of garbage on you system. Firewalls only prevent hack attacks, unless they have a malware plugin. Mostly if you go to a web page and have ********** on the site could load all kinds of stuff.

 

[serpentmoon]

YIKES! That's scary. Remind me not to get TOO zealous about finding copycats.

I agree with that! I'm not going to look anymore. I did pm Laurel and I will see what she says.

One of the sites did try to download stuff but I think my protection stopped it. I hope so anyway. But I don't like that these sites come and take people's stories to use like that. Obviously not about the story at all but getting hits using the right words.