Malware, Spam, Pop-ups and The Most Likely Domains to Find Them
McAfee (sponsor of this site) uses data from it's SiteAdvisor service to compile data for it's annual reported called Mapping the Mal Web Revisited. While I think detailed data from SiteAdvisor is generally more useful than aggregate data, its useful to know which domains push more malware, spam and popups. It may give you pause before clicking on an ad from one of the worst domains.
Here are to best and the worst:
The World's Most Overall Overall The World's Overall OverallDangerous Country rank in rank in Safest Country rank in rank in
Web Domains 2008 2007 Web Domain 2008 2007
(ranked in order) (ranked in order)
Hong Kong (.hk) 1 28 Finland (.fi) 74 70
PR of China (.cn) 2 11 Japan (.jp) 72 57
Philippines (.ph) 4 19 Norway (.no) 71 68
Romania (.ro) 5 4 Slovenia (.si) 70 62
Russia (.ru) 8 7 Colombia (.co) 69 64
Not surprisingly there were some big jumps in relative ranks from one year to the next, more reason to base browsing decisions on up to data, targeted data about a site rather than aggregate data.
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