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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. Re:Awww, did someone ruin your little troll thread by willyhill · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You really have no shame at all twitter. It's nice of you to reply to me using the name troll account you created specificially to target me, just like the ones you've created for anyone on Slashdot who disagrees with you, like westlake, Otter and Mactrope.

    Why do you insist on misleading everyone into thinking there is a conversation between multiple people taking place? You've done this "reply to the goatse troll with all my sockpuppets" thing before, and it didn't work out too well then either.

    My offtopic moderation is well deserved. Your "insightful" one is not.

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  2. Re:Awww, did someone ruin your little troll thread by willyhill · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I am not Twitter

    No, of course not. Just a concerned bystander.

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