Though I have been irritated by many of the recent vikatan.com’s articles and posts, I continue reading it just to get a gist of what’s happening in Tamil Nadu. But alas, when I tried to login today I was alerted by both Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox that this site has been reported as an attack site containing malware.
It looks like 31 pages in this site contain 12 trojans/malicious scripts. Vikatan already collects subscription money from users and should be content with that and should not lose readers for a few extra bucks. One thing that’s sure is that neither vikatan.com nor kumudam.com is trying to do justice to their status. They’re simply relying on sleazy pictures and interviews of current actresses and never try to go beyond their reach.
I’ve even thought about stopping my subscription for vikatan.com. The only reason that stopped me was that I would be cut off from the tamil world altogether. But this is not definitely an endorsement but just a warning. I can feel thousands of readers thinking the same…. I hope this creates an impact on vikatan’s internet strategy. Please wakeup and take some creative steps to increase revenue rather than using malware hosts. Tamil reading audience expect reasonable journalism from you !!.
For those who are not sure what to do, increase your browser’s security settings if you want to continue or better yet avoid visiting vikatan.com till it has removed the links/ads to malware hosts.
2 comments:
Since when is Vikatan a reflection of 'Tamil World'? :-)
Seriously - I stopped reading Vikatan when I could not tell Kumudam and Vikatan apart!
Just hang out in tamilmanam.net or news.google.co.in tamil space...
Why are all Tamil news/magazine sites full of girl pictures? Are the Tamils such jollu parties??
Hi Nagu,
Absolutely true. Vikatan stopped being the mirror of Tamil world long ago..
I do follow tamilmanam and tamilish along with Google News.
Ironically many bloggers have also started posting sleazy pics of girls to attract more hits.
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