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Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware
garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) are infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's 'winner') is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack."
I have n "" letter n my keybard, yu insensitive cld!
Blocking .cm can be a helpful step, because it blocks a portion of the hostnames that (A) if you visit has a very high probability of infecting you, and (B) that an intentional visit to is unlikely.
So you can block .cm with a notable increase in safety, with a minimal decrease in usefulnes of your internet access.
The same could not be said of blocking the whole net. Blocking the whole net reduces the utility of your network connection, since it means you can no longer navigate to the sites that you do want to, with high probability.
What is "they" in that sentence, or did you mean "TLDs" instead of "websites"?
.og doesn't exist. You might want to consult a list of TLDs before you ask a bunch of "what about" questions. Or install a robust browser and try to load the url instead of just wondering about it.
Hate to break it to you, but those ain't coconut cookies that they sent to your browser...
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