That’s not 9000 sites, it’s 9000 pages hosted on some smaller number of sites.
Some of those pages, at a guess, might not have actually loaded as a separate event (a single web page built of five iframes might count as 6 “pages” per the report, for example). It depends what the browser creates a history or cache artifact for.
So, someone spending an hour a day clickety clicking next-next-next might get through 9000 “pages” in a couple of months.
Rock solid I’d say.
Diamond or Talc?
I’m somewhat sympathetic. I once managed to infect a work computer by visiting a news site (as I’m pretty sure it wasn’t due to Boingboing and that was the only other non-work-related web browsing I was doing). I suspect a bad ad popped up a window that was identical to those the anti-virus was constantly pestering me with, and I clicked on it, absent-mindedly. It covered the desktop with fake gay porn thumbnails and an ad for (fake) anti-virus software. (I later read about fake anti-virus companies that took out fake ads on legit sites that did this, which confirmed my initial suspicions.)
I took the issue to IT, who wiped the computer, and I jokingly apologized that I had been looking at so much gay porn at work, but I rather suspect they didn’t think I was joking. (Which probably explains why, apropos of nothing, one of the IT guys later started talking about what porn sites he recommended from a security perspective…)
Anecdotally, I have seen malvertising campaigns on CNN. It is a thing.
Apparently this fake anti-virus company (the name of which I forget) is the big offender in taking out those ads. The ads appear to be for other, unrelated companies.
I’m surprised CNN is one of them, though - I had assumed it was smaller news outlets that took unvetted ads.
This was a while ago (my memory suggests maybe 2010 or 2011).
This is as close to getting my rocks off at work as I get.
Or
My boss is really busting my rock balls.
The recommendations? Filter the web, and plug those damned USB ports.
why fight human nature, rather than embrace it? eliminate violations through the back door by creating a safe, viable alternative: empower the FDA or FCC to certify porn sites.
Dear sir: I can guarantee you that my multi-terabytes of porn have no titties!
Fake gay? Fake porn? It was actually straight people not having sex?
*Instructions unclear, genitals caught in geode. Would not buy again.
Or
Did you get those from Gwyneth Paltrow?
Some weirdo at the ren fair…
That’s a “yes,” then?
What looked like image file thumbnails (except they had no corresponding images) with unintelligible images but various gay porn labels. It didn’t even have the decency to transfer some real gay porn on my desktop.
Could be her jade egg supplier?
That’s the kiddo using a cutter with a hydrolic jack to crack it open.
The true story is cooler than Gwyneth. 
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