According to a study by McAfee it is revealed that .hk domain of Hong Kong is the most dangerous when it comes to security threat like malware and virus e.t.c.
Second most dangerous domain is .cn of China.
The McAfee Mal Web report which is due to be published today is based on data collected by SiteAdvisor tool, which crawls the Web and clicks “yes” to test everything from downloadable software, screensavers, and peer-to-peer file-sharing clients to photo upload utilities, and e-mail and newsletter sign-ups.
The tool then monitors what happens to the test computer after it engages with the sites, looking particularly for risky things like malicious downloads, exploits, viruses, and spyware. Each site is then rated based on the behavior, with buttons on the browser colored green, yellow, or red for computers that have the tool downloaded.
The study shows that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending with the .hk domain pose a security threat to Web users, followed by China (.cn), the Philippines (.ph), Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru).
Shane Keats, a research analyst for McAfee said:
This doesn’t mean that all .hk domains are based in Hong Kong or that more malware distributors are located there. Malicious sites, choose the most affordable domain registrars in countries with the least regulation, so usually they are not located in that country.
He further stated that English speakers shouldn’t feel safer just because many of the more risky domains are in foreign countries, because nine Romanian domain sites out of ten shows content in English.
On a question of how severe these domains pose a threat he said:
It can be as minimal as a pop-up track, and I can’t exit out or it opens a new pop-up window and I have to reboot, to other sites where you just touch the site and you have downloaded software that turns the machine into a bot in a bot army that sends spam.
Porn sites normally do not pose a threat but when they do, it can become really nasty as they are among the worst of the spammers and exploits, he concluded.
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