.hk, The most dangerous domain on internet

One of the biggest antivirus companies of world, McAfee has released its annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report few days ago.In this report you can find information on which high-level domains (HLD) you should take extra precaution while surfing on internet. The web sites which provide facility for download of videos, mp3s, ringtones and screen savers are big source for spywares and malwares. They test sites for the presence of risky behaviors such as browser exploits, adware/spyware/Trojans/viruses, high likelihood of receiving spam, affiliation with other risky sites, and aggressive pop-up marketing.


For this report McAfee has analyzed 265 top-level domains. According to this report the most dangerous domain to surf on internet is (.hk) which is HLD of HongKong whose 19.2 percent of the websites are not safe for your computer. Second place on the bad boys went to China (11%), while Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru) kept their top five spots: 6.75% and 6%, respectively.

At the other end of the top, Finland (.fi) was found to be the safest online destination (0.05%), followed by Japan (.jp) and Norway(.no).

Other key findings from McAfee report include:
- the chance of downloading spyware, adware, viruses or other unwanted software from surfing the Web increased 41.5% over 2007
- sites which offer downloads such as ringtones and screen savers that are also loaded with viruses, spyware and adware increased over the last year from 3.3% to 4.7%
- the Philippines (.ph) experienced a 270% increase in overall riskiness
- Spain (.es) experienced a 91% increase in overall risk
- Tokelau (.tk) and Samoa (.ws) were notably safer in 2008 dropping to 28th and 12th.

For dealing with such kind of dangerous virus and trojan activities on internet we recommends
Kaspersky Lab Internet Security 7.0 Utility Software - PC.



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