Web riskiest domains published by McAfee

McAfee Company which produces antivirus programs published in annual report on the web’s riskiest domains. In fact, when we do a web search, the chance that we’ll encounter malware, spam, or other threats from a specific website depends greatly on the site’s top-level domain (TLD), or letter code, (for example, .UK or .BR and for a generic TLD, .COM or .NET) at the end of the website address telling where the site is registered. This year’s report was produced after analyzing more than 27 million websites and 104 top-level domains. 5.8% of all domains tested were risky—This is an increase from 2007 and 2008, when 4.1% of sites were rated as risky. The riskiest TLD was Cameroon (.CM)—.CM had a risk rating of 36.7%, while last year’s riskiest domain, .HK (Hong Kong), dropped to 34th place with a risk rating of 1.1%. Commercial (.COM) is the second-riskiest TLD—This heavy-trafficked TLD had a risk rating of 32.2% and was also the most risky generic TLD. Romania (.RO) was the riskiest TLD for malicious downloads—Some 21.0% of the .RO domains with downloads contained risky files such viruses, spyware, and adware. Information (.INFO) was the most “spammy” TLD—Of the .INFO sites tested with sign-up forms, 17.2% resulted in unwanted email. The TLDs with the least risky registrations— Or fewest domains rated risky are: Governmental (.GOV), Japan (.JP), Educational (.EDU), Ireland (.IE), Croatia (.HR)