How to Choose a Good Free Wallpapers Web Site

Posted: Jan 21, 2011 |Comments: 0 |

With the large popularity the free wallpapers take advantage of, it was absolutely normal for the web world to encounter a lot of unpleasant situations as well, such as fake web sites, infected web sites and the list can go on. Finding free wallpapers is not hard if you learn to look in the right places. Anyway, let's see what you should avoid when you are interested in giving your desktop background some style.

First of all, free wallpapers are obviously free, therefore indirectly you will have to pay a tax. It doesn't consist in money, but in stress perhaps. In order to get to the wallpaper you want, you need to go from the thumbnail picture to the large one. Although it seems to be like one click away, sometimes this distance is longer. Click the thumbnail and you end up with two pop-up windows, along with a 15 seconds advertising page before you actually get to the large image.

In your search for various free wallpapers, you probably know those famous "heavy" web sites that make your computer work slower, the animations go frame by frame and your mouse moves with the speed of an old lady. Those are ads and sometimes the webmasters are paid only to display them. They know that you won't let a couple of extra seconds take your favorite wallpaper away from you and overpopulate the pages with such annoying animations. This might not be a problem, but a lot of ads are problematic for Windows user.


Windows may lose some of its popularity in front of Linux based operating systems, but a lot of people still use it and it comes with most new computers. Therefore, you will sooner or later end up with viruses, malicious scripts or malware. Why is that? Because free wallpapers are very popular and if you want to attack a system over the Internet, you hit the place with the most potential victims.

You probably know the smiley ads. Sometimes they even got sounds and scare you a little when they ask what's up. Those are your "best" friends. Even just viewing these ads may cause you problems. The same goes for those famous green lotteries. If you don't live within the United States of America, those are some of the most common ads spamming you wherever you go over the Internet. And let's not forget about the adult content ads, which are the most malicious ads.

Keep in mind that free wallpapers only imply downloading the images, without any other files. Sometimes, if you are the type that gets bored easily, you may opt for downloading a software to automatically change your wallpaper at a specified period of time, starting from a few minutes and going to monthly setups. This is anyway optional and you don't usually get them automatically from free wallpapers web sites, no matter how real and serious the ads may seem. Don't forget that not a lot of good things come for free and free wallpapers are no exception.

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