If your company bars employees from visiting certain Web sites during work hours, you may want to add this one to the list. Of course, the site’s so popular and overloaded that they may not be able to access it anyway.

The site is called IllicitEncounters.com. It provides a place for married people to conduct affairs, and apparently the cheating business is bull-ish. Last week the site registered a record number of new profiles. In fact, new sign-ups hit 2,700 in six days, and January is on pace to be a record month. But there’s a good reason — apart from the age-old tendency to stray.

The Web site said it’s tracking the locations of new members, and most of them are from the  parts of Great Britain that were hit hard by rare heavy snowfalls and other freaky weather that left Brits trapped in their homes.

So, how’s this work? You’re stranded at home with the Significant Other. You’ve been looking at each other — and no one else — for days. And all of a sudden the two of you start fighting over who gets access to the family computer?

We’re not sure this is what the U.S. Defense Department had in mind when it launched the Internet.

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