Thu, Jun 5 2008 15:31 Don

Hong Kong hosts most risky sites, says McAfee

The Chinese territory of Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are home to the largest fraction of malicious Web sites, according to a report published by antivirus company McAfee on Wednesday.

In its report, Mapping the Mal Web Revisited, the company found that the top-level domains with the largest proportion of malicious sites belonged to Hong Kong (.hk) and China (.cn) with the Philippines (.ph) and Romania (.ro) tied for fourth. The company surveyed nearly 10 million heavily-trafficked Web sites around the world and found that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending in the .hk posed a danger to visitors. Approximately 11 percent of Web sites in mainland China's top-level domain were rated as risky by SiteAdvisor.

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