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Riskiest Domain Types : A report by McAfee - 12-01-2007

A global survey of the riskiest places to surf online found Russian and Romanian sites among the top-level domains most commonly hosting malicious downloads, browser exploits, and scams.

The complete survey of 250+ domain types was carried out by McAfee.

It found that .info is the riskiest generic domain, with 7.5 per cent of its sites rated as risky followed by .com, with a 5.5 per cent population of dodgy sites.

Some web activities, like registering at a site or downloading a file,
are significantly more risky when done at certain domains.
For example, giving an email address to a random .info domain
results in a 73.2 per cent chance of receiving spam, McAfee reports.

Sources:
McAfee maps malware risk domains | The Register
Mapping the Malweb - Interactive Map

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Re: Riskiest Domain Types : A report by McAfee - 12-01-2007

Thank's for this news Shadab !
So the .info domain's are the badest's
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Re: Riskiest Domain Types : A report by McAfee - 12-10-2007

I wont visti .info's :O
kidding.

Nice report though!

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Re: Riskiest Domain Types : A report by McAfee - 01-06-2008

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Re: Riskiest Domain Types : A report by McAfee - 01-06-2008

.info because its cheap.
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