Technology – Where malicious software lurking: Dubious streaming portals – Süddeutsche.de

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Cologne (dpa / tmn) – From the new favorite series comes a new season – unfortunately only on pay-TV or the US? Many then searches simply on the net for a streaming portal that “Game of Thrones” or “House of Cards” is free.

In addition to the known legal solutions such as max cathedrals, Watch Ever, Amazon Prime video or Netflix there are the net also many unknown and sometimes rather dubious deals – often it is unclear whether it still moves in the legal field. And just there a threat of considerable risks, warns “botfrei.de”, the malware Consulting Center of the Association of the German Internet Industry (eco). They range from malicious software on fraud to problems of copyright infringement.

An important warning sign for rogue portals are allegedly missing plugins for the browser or media player. This – it is alleged – need to be installed for the series episode runs. But often there is instead a media player malware. This also applies to malicious banner ads that appear suddenly and such calls look to download additional software. They are another way to unsuspecting fans Serie foist malicious software. Prompts a portal for installing software on, you should therefore steer clear of it.

This is a good idea in other ways. While streaming, so the pure retrieving a video signal, legally currently not considered a copyright infringement, it looks at the distribution of copyrighted materials is very different. Many a would-streaming provider uses for the distribution of content which is known from filesharing torrent or p2p technology. Here one receives not only video files, but sends it also equally as part of a network to others. Downloads before film release a reference to such illegal deals can be. Those who have already installed such plugins, media player or other software that can be downloaded from “botfrei.de” test and cleaning software.

Caution applies loud “botfrei.de” also in the conclusion of subscriptions. The transmitted personal data and credit card information could be misused. In addition, the risk of being targeted by investigators threatened -. If it comes to investigations against illegal operators