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McAfee names Most Dangerous Domains
By siliconindia
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Monday, 09 June 2008, 19:30 IST
Bangalore: Hong Kong (.hk) domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web, as per the new McAfee report. The report, "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited", revealed that 19.2 percent of all websites ending in the ".hk" domain pose a security threat1 to web users.
"Just like the real world, the virtual threats and risks are constantly changing. As our research shows, websites that are safe today can be dangerous tomorrow. Surfing the web-based or conventional wisdom is not enough to avoid risk online," said Jeff Green, Senior VP of Product Development & Avert Labs.
China (.cn) positions as the second this year over 11 percent. On the contrary Finland (.fi) replaced Ireland (.is) as the safest online destination with 0.05 percent, followed by Japan (.jp).
The most risky generic domain from 2007's report became more dangerous with 11.8 percent of all sites ending in .info posing a security threat and is the third most dangerous domain overall while government websites (.gov) remained the safest generic domain. The most popular domain, .com, is the ninth riskiest overall.
Using the award-winning McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, McAfee analyzed 9.9 million heavily trafficked websites found in 265 different country (those ending in country letters e.g. Brazil .br) and generic (those ending in .net or .info for example) domains.
The study compared the ratings of sites found in each of the 265 countries and generic domains and ranked them by the number of risky websites found in each domain that contained adware, spyware, viruses, spam, excessive pop-ups, browser exploits or links to other red-rated sites.
