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McAfee Picks the Most Dangerous TLDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-fear-dot-vg dept.

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."

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  1. Define "Dangerous" by corsec67 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is that dangerous to someone running IE on Windows, or dangerous to the person, like scams?

    It seems like they kind of mashed the 2 together, but that is McAfee, so I would expect them to exaggerate the dangers of browsing without McAfee.

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  2. sorry, but i just don't get it... by ketamine-bp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i live in Hong Kong.

    here, if we are to register domain names, especially .com.hk, we need business registration to get it registered, same goes for .edu.hk, .org.hk etc.

    the possible exception would be .hk, but i think the HKNIC (i forgot the name..) does have reasonable abuse TOS that these bad things get cancelled... so i would be glad if they could provide us with the domain names they flagged 'dangerous' and let's see how it goes....

  3. Interesting bits by rock56501 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I am willing to bet that there are a lot more .com site's registered than .cn or .info or whatnot, so the fact that 5% of the .com's are flagged is huge, seeing that most people think about going to .com's before anything else.

    One other interesting note is that .05% of .gov's are listed as dangerous. So is that like from when the www.nsa.gov website left that tracking cookie on your computer or is there a actual government website out there that is actually dangerous to visitors?

  4. But what about .nu? by mangu · · Score: 5, Interesting

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