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McAfee Picks the Most Dangerous TLDs
CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes "Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are .hk, .cn, and .info. Of all .hk sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of .cn sites and 11.7 percent of .info sites that way. A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the .com domain — the world's most popular — were identified as dangerous."
Home of the goatse. Danger Will Robinson!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
...would anyone want to take security advice from McAffe?
There is a war going on for your mind.
Not even the malware folks can get a decent domain in .com anymore, they're all in use or squatted upon.
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The problem with .cn domains: 30 minutes after you surf there, you want to surf there again...
Those sites are just chock full of advertisements for Norton and download links to NOD32...
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
WTF? They left out the most dangerous TLD of them all: .cowboyneal
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I let mcgrew.info lapse, so .info should be safe now. However, horror awaits the unsuspecting eyeballs that cruise .org, since I have a journal at slashdot. I'm told it's far worse than goatse.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
My God, I though you were joking. And here I was, thinking that goatse was only 1 image.
Thanks dude, that's 12 extra therapy sessions for me.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
...would a link to the full set of Goatse pictures be moderated "Interesting"
I think it's cute how you still think any of the TLDs are still used for their originally intended purposes.
Don't forget .ng (Nigeria). I don't think anything good ever comes from that domain.
.no - Norway
.sh - Saint Helena
.it - Italy
sherlock
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Did Twitter turn your goatse conversation into one about why the web is dangerous for so many people? Cry me a river.
I don't know what's worse. The fact that I clicked, or the fact that it's already slashdotted.
The 5% number cames straight out of goatse.cx's ass
As your therapist I would like to personally thank the GP.